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NORTH RIDING RECORDS

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VOLUME III., NEW SERIES

THE HONOR AND FOREST OF PICKERING

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CONTENTS.

Coucher Book [Fols. 258-322]
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ERRATA.

Page 25, line 30, for Thomas Vicar read Thomas, Vicar.

,, 37, ,, 2 from bottom, for Majorie read Marjorie.

,, 47, ,, 26, for Ebberton read Ebberston.

,, 54, ,, 4 from bottom, for Falwood read Fullwood.

,, 92, ,, 21, for allocatur read allocetur.

,, 140, ,, 12, for quiete read quieti.

,, 144, ,, 7, for possunt read possint.
,, 195, note, for tollage read tallage.

„ 197, line 8, for evacuatur read evacitetur.

,, 214, „ 32, ior judgments read judgment.

,, 214, ,, 39, after /^.r insert w/.

,, 216, „ 15, for Sancti read Sancte.

,,218, ,, 9, for qeundam read quendam.

,, 219, ,, 33, after/row insert /fo>«.

INTRODUCTION.

One or two matters in the preceding volumes call for note. At
Vol. I., N.S., p. 209, the word taverned gave me some trouble. I have
since found the explanation of it at Surtees Society, Vol. XXII., p. 18.
It means to let or lease.

There is also a correction that I would wish to make at Vol. II.,
N.S., p. xxv. In mentioning that Edward II. was after his deposition
committed to the custody of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, I referred to
Pontefract as the Castle in which he was confined ; this should have
been another of the Earl's castles — namely, Kenilworth, from which
the King was afterwards removed to Berkeley Castle, where his death
occurred.

The second Series of the Records is now rapidly drawing to a close.
Unless there is an unexpected increase to the number of our members
the next volume will be the last ; but to some extent this will be
appropriate, since it will conclude the Pickering Eyre. This being so,
I will pass over the general features of this volume until I have an
opportunity of reviewing the Eyre as a whole, and will, in this
Introduction, merely call attention to one or two points that arise
incidentally.

The Officers of the Forest.

At p. 242 I have printed one of the class of documents known as
Ancient Petitions, which throws a considerable amount of light upon
the state of the times. In the first place the petition suggests a doubt
as to the legality of the grants of Pickering to the Earl of Lancaster
after Simon de Montfort's death. Pickering was part of the Crown
Lands, and while the inability to alienate Crown lands is not distinctly
stated, the suggestion is made that the grant was temporary only, and
until other lands of equal value could be provided for Edmund ; a
suggestion for which there is foundation in the language of the
original grant to Earl Edmund. In this connection it must not be
forgotten that it was not until the commencement of the reign of
Queen Anne that an Act of Parliament (1 Anne, st. 1, c. 1) was
passed, forbidding (by sect. 5) the alienation of Crown Lands. If

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Pickering could in any way revert to the Crown, then it was the
duty of the present possessor to keep it so that it could be restored in
its original condition. This, the petition suggests, could not be
done ; encroachments are being constantly made, oaks are felled,
game destroyed ; things were far better when the Earl Marshall was
forester in fee.

But what was far worse was the enormous power which the possession
of such a forest gave to the Earl. He was in the position of a petty
king ; his own men fought for him against Sir Adam Banastre ; nay,
they followed him in his several rebellions against the King, and on his
behalf they overawed Parliaments ; but all this was venial. They went
further : they compelled those who were tenants of the King to join
the Earl's tenants and fight against their liege lord.

This is, I think, the meaning of the passage ; within the district
known as Pickering Lithe there were other fees besides the Lancaster
fee {see, for instance, p. 195), and the Earl's officers compelled the men
who held of these fees to join with those who held of the Earl.
Although strictly in doing homage loyalty to the King was the tenant's
first duty, and loyalty to his lord his second, yet there seems great
probability that in practice the exact reverse was the usual custom,
and it is certain that a great distinction was drawn between the case
where a rebel simply followed his lord, and the case where he he.d
directly from the King and rebelled against him.

The last complaint of the petition was against the foresters them-
selves. It was a complaint which was as applicable to foresters of the
King as to foresters of the Earl ; in the reigns of the Edwards the
officers of the forest were they who scaled the ladder of fortune the
quickest. Often strangers, like John de Monmouth, Roger de
Leicester, Henry de Ripley, &c, they came, so the petition states,
with nothing but their bows and arrows, and in a short time they had
ousted the old families of Pickering, bought land, and settled there.
This seems to me the most valuable portion of the petition as a
picture of the times : historically, I doubt if it is of much value. I
doubt if Simon de Montfort was ever Lord of Pickering, and if
Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, was ever forester in fee of anything
beyond Scalby Forest, although, on the other hand, the suggestion, at
p. 207, that his bailiff, Thomas de Ebberston (see Vol. II., N.S., p. 41;
was also bailiff of Pickering, does bear out this suggestion. But as
to the power of the foresters there can be little doubt. It is signifi-
cant to note the intimate connection between the administration of
law within the honor and the management of the forest. The
constable of the Castle was usually bailiff of the liberty and keeper
of the forest. Take, for instance, John de Dalton, whose fate it was

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to serve in those troubled times. He is described (at Vol. II., N.S.,
p. 121) as the holder of the first and last office, and in the present
volume (at p. 240) as the holder of the second. At the earlier passage
it was his duty to account for all deer killed and oaks felled during
his term of office ; at the later passage he had to execute arrests.
The rents and other payments due to the Earl passed through his hands
as bailiff and receiver {see Vol. II., N.S., p. 14); while as bailiff it
was also for him and not for the sheriff to serve all writs and
summonses within the precincts of the liberty.

The connection existed not only in respect of the chief officers,
but also of the subordinates. At p. 213, infra, there is a list of the bailiffs
of the Earl of Lancaster, who distrained the beasts of Sir Robert de
Scarborough. Referring to the other places in the two volumes where
the same names occur, it seems probable that they were all foresters
and under-foresters.

It is obvious that this connection between law and hunting gave an
enormous importance to the position of a forester. Not satisfied with
the wages which they were paid {infra, p. 15), their constant endeavour
seems to have been to have established their right to those perquisites
which in other forests pertained to foresters. To one of these —
namely, puture, I have often referred. This word occurs twice
in the volume with a slightly different meaning. At p. 225,
it is used to denote the keep of a greyhound, and at p. 227, for
food provided for the poor. Elsewhere it is used to denote the
right that foresters claimed to compel the inhabitants to keep gratis
them and their servants on board for a certain number of days in each
year. This custom is referred to in the Introduction to the " Year
Book" (n-12 Ed. III., "Rolls Series," p. xxiv, 269-275), and also in
the Coram Rege Roll, Hil. Term, 6 Ed. III., m. 31, with regard to
Inglewood Forest.

The case in the Year Book was a claim by the forester of Inglewood
against the Abbot of St. Mary's, York. He claimed food and drink at
the table of the Abbot's grooms, on Friday in every week, together
with the right to carry away, whenever he pleased, a flagon of the best
ale in the abbot's cellar, and two tallow-candles from the abbot's
chamber, a bushel of oats for his horse, and a loaf of black bread for
his dog.

I do not think that this custom ever obtained any foothold at Picker-
ing, although we constantly find cases {see p. 15, infra) in which
foresters were attempting to set it up, and it was probably to provide
against the success of any such attempts that we find the Prior of
Malton, at p. 104, the Prior of Ellerton, at p. 108, and the Dean and
Chapter of York, at pp. 128 and 155, all claiming to be exempt from

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it. At p. 236 a similar custom is stated to have lately arisen in the
forest of Galtres. At p. 245 of the Surtees Society, Vol. LXXXIIL,
we have an interesting notice of the apparent existence of the custom in
the neighbouring forest of Westerdale, as John de Eure released the
Abbey of Rievaulx from providing it. The date is probably that of
the fourteenth century. Closely allied to the claim to have puture is
the claim to collect sheaves (p. 15), as well as the claim referred to in
Vol. L, N.S., p. 222, to collect hens. The tendency of the foresters
to extort such presents, as a matter of right, from those residing within
their jurisdiction was dealt with not only in the "Carta de Forestis "
(sect. 8), but also subsequently by the Act 25 Edw. III., c. 5,
sect. 7.

Another perquisite to which attention should be called is the claim
when trees were given to the tenants of a manor for building purposes
(housebote), &c, to have the bark and the strippings. This claim is
made, at p. 82, by the foresters in fee, William de Percehay and Parnell
de Kingthorpe, and allowed ; but as to trees felled for the use of the
Earl the verdict, while admitting that they had been in the habit of
enjoying the privilege, found that it was a mere matter of favour and
not of right. A similar claim, limited to the Manor of Ebberston, was
made by Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef, and allowed (p. 122,
infra). At first sight this claim does not seem to have any connection
with any forest office ; on the contrary, it is claimed as appurtenant
to the Manor of Ebberston ; Robert Wyerne was the grandson of
a former verderer, and Thomas Thurnef was then a regarder,
and afterwards bailiff, of Pickering. The claim was allowed, but
proceedings were subsequently taken by Sir Robert de Scarborough
and his tenant, Thomas White, to set it aside (p. 198). I have
collected from the Coram Rege Rolls a series of extracts relating
to the quarrel, but it is extremely difficult to get to the bottom
of the story. Who Sir Robert was I cannot say ; there was a judge
of that name, and he may have been this man. If he was, it appears
clear {see pp. 218, 219) that his judicial office was no obstacle to
his entertaining a natural and deep-rooted objection to paying his
taxes. It may have been from this cause, but more probably from
some dispute about bark, that proceedings were taken by Robert de
Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef against Sir Robert in the Wapentake
Court of Pickering by an action of fresh force (which corresponds to
an assize of novel disseisin in the King's Court, see Pollock and
Maitland, Vol. I., p. 628).

It is a pure hypothesis, but it may be that Sir Robert had refused
to give up the bark of some trees delivered to him, and Robert Wyerne
and Thomas Thurnef alleged that they had been disseised of their

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franchise, and took action in the local court. Here the allowance of
the claim in the Forest Eyre was an absolute bar to Sir Robert ;
judgment for ,£5 was given against him, and his only course was to
take proceedings in the King's Bench to quash the claim.

The proceedings took the form of scire facias ad audie?idum errores,
the usual course taken in order to reverse a judgment that had been
given, and it is a matter of considerable regret to me that I have not
been able to discover what the result of the proceedings was.

At first Sir Robert appears to have admitted that there was a manor
of Ebberston, and that it was owned by Robert Wyerne and Thomas
Thurnef ; but he denied that any owner of the manor ever had the
right to appoint a woodward ; nay, more, that any wood belonged to
the manor (both which claims had been made by the joint lords
of the manor). As to the bark, the explanation is that while Thomas
de Ebberston, a former owner of the manor, was bailiff of Pickering,
out of fear a few of the smaller tenants gave him the bark of trees
supplied to them for housebote, &c. Afterwards these proceedings
were dropped and fresh initiated, in which Sir Robert took even stronger
ground. He maintained that there was no Manor of Ebberston at
all, that what was so-called was simply a messuage, six tofts and crofts
and two carucates of land. It is noteworthy that, at p. 16, Vol. II.,
N.S., Robert Wyerne, the grandfather, in the year 13 13, paid a fine for
entry upon his moiety of the land at Ebberston, described as late the
property of Amery Gegge, under a somewhat similar description —
namely, one moiety of a messuage and five and a-half oxgangs. How
the five and a-half oxgangs had increased to one carucate needs con-
sideration. That the bulk of the property was the same is probable
from p. 123, where the title to the manor is set out, namely, that
Thomas de Ebberston enfeoffed Amery Gegge of one moiety, and
Amery Gegge enfeoffed Robert Wyerne, the grandfather of the
claimant.

It appears from the Year Book {see post, p. 203) that a question arose
to the rights of Sir Robert and his tenants to sue on behalf of the
commoners. Unfortunately the case only appears in the printed edition
of the Year Book, and I have not been able to find it in any of the
MSS. (either in those in the British Museum or in Lincoln's Inn),
while Mr. L. O. Pike, who has been kind enough to help me in the
matter, and whose edition of the Year Book for the Rolls Series is so
well known, has been equally unsuccessful. He suggests that most
probably there were other MSS. from which the printed book was com-
piled, and which have since been lost, or it is also possible that the
case does appear in one of the MSS. now extant, but that in the
printed edition it has been transposed to a wrong year. As printed,

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there appear to be obvious errors, and though I have suggested cor-
rections, not being able to collate it with any MS., I cannot feel sure
that my conjectures are right.

The ordinary rule in later days applicable to scire facias in errore was
that all parties against whom judgment was given ought regularly to
join in Error (see " Comyn's Digest," tit. Pleader 3, B. 9). The diffi-
culty seems to have been to ascertain against whom the judgment in
Eyre must be considered to have been given. That the allowance of
the claim injured the commoners there could be no doubt, but it
appears by no means clear that the commoners could have appeared
personally at the Eyre and been heard to object to the claim. The
argument, however, of Skipwith, counsel for Robert Wyerne and
Thomas Thurnef, was that in the reverse case, if the commoners had
wished to make a claim, ah must have claimed, and not two on behalf
of the rest. The judgment does not, however, appear to adopt this
view. Mr. Justice Bankwell suggests that the argument was unsound
in a case where the Forest Laws were applicable, although it might
be otherwise in the case of land outside a forest.

I shall have occasion later to refer to these proceedings ; at
present it is only material to call attention to the allegation that from
a mere casual gift, arising out of fear and a hope to curry favour, a
prescriptive right was sought to be established.

We meet with a similar feature (see p. 115, infra) in the case of
Langhowdale, or Langatdale Wood, which, so far as I can identify,
lay between Pickering and Ellerburn, and possibly is that now marked on
the Ordnance Map as Howedale Wood (see Vol. L, N.S., p. 98). Sir
Ralph Hastings claimed this wood as his own ; but if the verdict of
the jury is to be relied on, he had no right to it ; his claim being simply
based upon a payment of a penny or a halfpenny a week which his
woodwards extorted from poor folk who gathered wood without
being entitled to do so. From Vol. I., N.S., pp. 28 and 97, it is quite
clear that this wood belonged to the Duchy in the seventeenth
century.

But it was not only by their pretensions to rights and perquisites that
the foresters made themselves so detested : at pp. 13 to 15 we find
a number of offences presented against them. Their servants extort
money from people who pass through the forest, though whether the
offence consists in taking the money, or in the fact that it was by
persons who had not been duly sworn, is not quite clear. The same
remark applies to the offence that is next mentioned. It may be that
it was wrong for foresters to seize cattle of one township that had
merely strayed on the waste of another township, both being within
the forest, or it may be that the impounding should have taken place

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within and not without the forest. But what is material is that in
either case an injury had been done to the inhabitants by a forester,
and, moreover, by one whose name (Robert de VVigan) denotes that he,
or some near ancestor, had migrated from some other part of the
possessions of the Earls of Lancaster.

Too great stress should not, of course, be laid upon these extortions
as if they were peculiar to forests ; it was an age, as the Coram Rege
Rolls of the period show, when officers misused their power ; but I
must not conclude without referring to the charges against the bailiff
of Pickering, referred to at pp. 217 and 219, of having extorted the
sum of £1 from a man whom he had arrested.

Closely allied with the right of receiving bark and strippings from
felled timber was the right of having the dry branches after they had
been cut and the leaves used for food for the deer in winter — in
other words, cablicia or browse- wood. It was the foresters in fee {see
p. 84) who claimed and were allowed this right. It was a right which
could very easily be abused. At p. 23 we have an offence for which
Sir William de Percehay, one of the foresters in fee, was fined 13s 4d;
and which appears to have consisted in cutting down larger branches
than was either necessary or lawful.

In the Articles of the Court of Eyre, in Waltham Forest (a.d. 1634),
(Harl. MSS., No. 68, 39, fol. 261), inquiry is, by Art. 43, directed to
ascertain " If anie forester or keeper browseth any mast boughes of
greate oakes in winter more for his own gaine than for sustenance of
the deer."

At the same time the claim must be read in connection with the
claim of John de Melsa (pp. 1, in and 158) to make charcoal out
of this same browsewood ; and of the Dean and Chapter of York
(p. 127) to take browsewood within the township of Pickering. As to
this last, I am by no means sure that I exactly apprehend what it
means. It is possible that the claim is simply to take browsewood
when required for housebote and hedgebote. From Vol. I., N.S.,
pp. 29, 34 and 18 r, we learn that at a later date the right of the
foresters in fee to this browsewood was disputed, although they appear,
notwithstanding, to have appropriated and sold it.

Woods.

Having regard to the difficulty under which the ordinary man laboured
in early days with the means then at his disposal in his attempt to take
game, it is not probable that the severity of the forest laws in respect
of poaching offences pressed quite so heavily on the lower orders as
writers are often in the habit of maintaining. In a preceding volume
I have called attention to the fact that for the most part the offenders

vol. in., n.s. b

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were persons of standing in the district, or their servants on their
behalf. The woods stand, however, in a different position. There
can be little doubt that the effect of the forest laws upon them caused
far more than a mere sentimental grievance, and that it was of
particular importance whether or no a wood was, or was not, " quit of
regard. • We have traces of four classes of woods within Pickering
Forest — (i) Those owned by a township ; (2) those owned by an
individual ; (3) those owned by the Earl, in which there were rights
of common ; and (4) those owned by the Earl in which there were
not : but it is by no means certain that the first and second class
were distinct. We may possibly have merely two different methods of
describing the same class of wood.

Whether the wood belonged to the Lord of Forest, or whether
it belonged to an individual, unless it was " quit of regard," or unless
there was some special custom to authorise it, no tree could be felled
in it; at Vol. II., N.S., p. 242, we have seen that Kingthorpe Wood,
which belonged to Roger de Mansergh, was valued at nothing, because
it lay within a forest. It is therefore, at first sight, difficult to
appreciate wherein the exact difference lay in the method of exercising
rights over the woods of the first three classes. An inquisition
(printed at Vol. I., N.S., p. 1) was taken in the year 1251, before the
date of the grant to Earl Edmund, and the several rights of the
tenants of Pickering are set out in detail They enjoyed the right of
gathering dry sticks for fuel/without view of the foresters, and they were
entitled to have wood delivered to them by the foresters for their
houses and hedges, and the repair of their ploughs.

Speaking generally, it appears from the record of the Eyre that at
its date the several tenants within the forest were in possession of
similar rights over all the woods within the ambit of the forest. It
has already been seen that the livery by the foresters was often made
the occasion by the foresters of obtaining some advantage for them-
selves ; where there was livery of housebote, the trees so delivered
could only be used within the forest ; it was an offence to sell them, it
was equally an offence to carry them outside {see pp. 14 and 15,
infra), hence we can understand the importance of the question
whether housebote could be taken without livery.

Gilbert de Aton was presented (pp. n and 22) for having taken
wood for housebote out of certain woods in Troutsdale, and for having
sold trees out of it ; he claimed that he was justified (pp. 98 and 153)
in doing so, on the ground that the woods in question were " quit of
regard." The jury admitted his claim as to part, but after having had
a view of the place they found that he was encroaching to the north,
and was claiming a larger area than he in fact possessed. The place-

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names have in part vanished, and possibly in part changed their
positions (for instance, Apple Tree Keld) ; it is difficult to say exactly
to how great an extent the claim was unsuccessful ; but the general
position of the wood can be traced. Before leaving this claim I would
refer to psallerint (p. 154), which is the word used to denote the giving,
or singing, of the verdict by the Jury. Sometimes, as in the claim of
Thomas Wake (at p. 149), in respect of Holtwaitbank, and as in the
claim of Scarborough (p. 172), in respect of Falsgrave, we have a
claim that a distinct locality is quit of regard; sometimes, as at
pp. 107, 141 and 144, we have claims by the Prior of Ellerton, and the
Prior of the Knights of St. John, that all their woods wherever situated
are so quit.

A right, of which lords of manors appear at all times to have been most
tenacious, is that of appointing woodwards. Again we are left in some
doubt wherein the advantage consisted. The contest appears to have
been, if we may take Robert Wyerne's case, before referred to, as a typical
instance, between an individual and the township at large. Whether
it was a mere right of patronage that was at stake, or whether larger
issues were in question, must be left for future consideration. I have
indexed the names of woodwards that occur, and also the claims that
were made to appoint them ; it is, therefore, only necessary to sum-
marize them shortly. Sir John de Melsa appointed the woodward in
Levisham ; Nicholas, and afterwards Sir Ralph Hastings, in Allerston
and Farmanby ; the Prioress of Wykeham, in Wykeham and Ruston ;
Gilbert de Aton, in Brompton and Hutton Bushell; Roben de
Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef, in Ebberston j Thomas de Pickering
and his wife, in Lockton j and Henry de Percy, in Seamer. In addition,
we find the woodward of the Prior of the Knights of St. John and
of the Master of Staynton. The only other woodwards mentioned are
the woodward of Thornton and of Thornton Riseborough. Possibly
these woodwards might have been chosen by the township at large.

It is worth while to refer again to the case of the Ebberston wood-
ward at p. 201. At first it will be noticed that Sir Robert pleaded
that two or three of the most substantial persons in the township elected
a woodward on behalf of the rest ; it may possibly have occurred
to the pleader that it might be difficult to maintain that Robert
Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef were not two of the most substantial
persons. At any rate, he amends his pleading, and at p. 207 describes
the election as being by all the commoners, and the presentation by two
or three in the name of the rest. This, however, raises the question
how, in fact, did an election take place ? It would be absurd to
suppose that the modern method of counting heads and allowing equal
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strength and weakness, to enlightenment and obstinacy, ever prevailed.
One would rather expect that by an instinctive acquiescence the elec-
tion was virtually in the hands of the few important persons in each
township, and that the amendment in the pleading connoted a verbal
distinction only, and not a distinction in fact. There is a passage in
Vol. IX., pp. 38, 39, of the Surtees Society describing the election of
a Bishop. No doubt the distinction between the election of a Bishop
in the twelfth century and that of a woodward in the fourteenth is very
great ; still it is important to observe that in neither case is there any
suggestion made that the view of the majority could bind the minority.
In the earlier instance we are told that there are only three methods
of election, by scrutiny or examination of each vote, by compromise
and by inspiration, when a nomination is made beforehand. It appears,
therefore, that unanimity, apparent or real, is necessary either amongst
all the voters, or, in the case of an election by compromise, amongst the
persons to whom the right of election is delegated.

To return to the question of the woodwards the following points
seem established. He was a servant of the chief Lord, and in this
respect analogous to a reeve ; he was appointed by the commoners,
and the commoners were to answer for him, but his duty was to protect
the woods within the forests for the chief Lord. He was presented at
the Court of Attachments (or possibly at the Swainmote Court), and
he had to take an oath. His duties were in general confined to the
trees alone ; he was only to carry a hatchet ; and though, in the case of
the woodward of Henry de Percy (p. 168), he was allowed to carry a
bow and arrows, that must be considered as an exception to the general
rule.

The foresters, on the other hand, other than the Earl's foresters,
seem to have been servants of such of the landowners as had rights
of hunting. The forester of Brompton (p. 43), for instance, was
probably the servant of Gilbert de Aton, who had (p. 99) the right of
hunting hare, wild-cat and badgerwithin the cultivated land at Brompton.
Ralph de Hastings claimed the right to hunt fox and hare within
the cultivated land at Allerston and Farmanby, a right which, as we
saw at Vol. I., N.S., 170, his descendant, some hundred and fifty years
later, considerably enlarged. The Abbot of St. Mary's, York (p. 118),
claimed a general right of hunting fox and hare throughout the forests ;
and Thomas Wake (p. 149) a right of hunting fox, hare, wild cat and
badger throughout the barony of Middleton ; the foresters of these
two latter are mentioned. I cannot find mention of the forester of
Henry de Percy who claimed the widest right of all at Seamer (p. 164),
namely, to hunt fox, hare, roedeer, wild cat and badger. The claim
as to the roedeer was for a long time a matter of contention, as it had

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been clearly proved that it was a forest offence to kill roedeer. How-
ever, eventually the claim was allowed — a result to which the connection
by marriage between Henry de Percy and Earl Henry (see p. 164 n.),
may have contributed.

The salary of the forester at Hovingham (p. 229) should be observed,
as it no doubt represented the usual salary at that date.

Before concluding these remarks reference should be made to the
claim (at p. 150) by Thomas Wake, to have livery of wood for him-
self and his tenants once a year at the next Attachment Court after
Michaelmas. The claim was first disallowed because the Jury found
that he ought to have it at every Attachment Court, and not only once
a year : it was eventually amended and allowed. Why the mere fact
of asking too little should be a ground for disallowing the claim is not
at first sight apparent. Perhaps it was due to a spirit of technicality
in the Judges, who considered that the claim and the verdict should
agree word for word ; or perhaps it was in order to endeavour to
compel the attendance of the tenants at every Attachment Court. In
the seventeenth century (see Vol. II., N.S., p. 3) the Swainmote Court
was held at Michaelmas, amongst other times, and I was, therefore, at
first under the impression that it did not exist under that name at the
date of the Eyre, and that it was merely a development of the Michael-
mas Attachment Court, which, from the claim of Thomas Wake, appears
to have been of greater importance than the rest. Later investigation
has, however, shaken my belief in this view. In a Coram Rege Roll a
few years later than the Eyre, which I shall probably print in the next
volume, there is a reference to the Swainmote Court by name, and it
is not probable, though it is possible, that it acquired this name in the
interval. It is, however, noteworthy that the Swainmote Court should
not be once mentioned by name in the whole Eyre.

Commons.
In the Inquisition printed at p. 1 of Vol. I., N.S., to which I have
already referred, we learn that the tenants of the demesne land enjoyed
common of pasture for all manner of animals except goats in all the
woods other than Blansby Park and Dalby Hay. This may be taken
as typical of the rights of common of pasture referred to in this
volume. From pages 47 to 64 we have a list of cattle that had been
seized by the foresters. It is impossible for me to say with even
approximate accuracy what the offence in each case was. In some
cases the cattle were pastured in the Earl's demesnes where no right
of common existed, such as Dalby Hay and Blansby Park, to which
probably Allantofts, Langdale, and Scalby Hay should be added. In
others they were pastured in the fence month, namely, from fifteen

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days before to fifteen days after Midsummer Day, when the deer were
fawning and no one was allowed to walk in the forest for fear of
disturbing them. Again, pigs were seized because they were not agisted
and were pasturing in the mast season.

In the Inquisition above referred to it is said that no pannage was
payable in respect of mast for pigs, but this custom must have been of
very limited extent. In the East Ward it is quite clear that pannage
was payable. Certain tenants of frank fee tenure, a tenure that in
Ancient Demesne stood just above socage, claimed a right of pasturing
their pigs without paying pannage. Most, like Robert Lambson (p. 95),
limited their claim to the mast season, but Alan, the son of Alan of
Cloughton (p. 117), and Adam de Burneston, clerk (p. 140), claimed
to be quit of this payment throughout the year; the verdict found that
no tenants, whether of frank fee or socage tenure, were ever quit of
pannage during the fence month, and that all that the claimants could
prove was to be quit during the mast season, i.e., from 14 September
to 18 November. In these two cases the claim was limited to Full-
wood, Hayburn, Derncliff, and Little Cliff; the Prior of Bridlington
(p. 125) extends his claims to the whole of Scalby, but the verdict
found that he never was so quit in Scalby Hay. The importance of
this lay in the fact that at pp. 47 and 48 the Prior of Bridlington,
Alan the son of Alan and Robert Lambson, then called Robert the
son of Lambert, were all presented because their pigs were found
unagisted within the covert, which I take to be Scalby Hay.

The claim of the Dean and Chapter of York (p. 126) should be
compared with the Inquisition, as by it they claim to be quit of
pannage throughout the Manor of Pickering, and though their title
rests on a deed couched in general language, the fact of non-payment
since the date thereof was more probably their stronger point. They
succeed (p. 155) in a similar claim as to Farmanby, Kingthorpe, and
Ellerburn.

As a rule goats could not be pastured in a forest; the Prioress of
Wykeham (p. 97), in her claim for common of pasture, expressly
excludes goats, and when not mentioned they were tacitly excluded.
We do, however, find two instances where claims to pasture goats were
made and allowed ; one (p. 99) by Gilbert de Ayton, and the other
(p. 112) by Ralph de Hasting.

Where cattle were straying in unlawful places they were seized, and
could only be replevied by their owners on payment of a fine. Such
cattle, or the fines on seizing them, were known as escapes, and it was
often a question of dispute to whom the escape belonged. At pp. 83
and 84 Parnell de Kingthorpe and William de Percehay, as foresters in
fee, claimed the escapes in Dalby from Easter to Michaelmas, and in

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Blansby Park throughout the year : namely, a penny a foot from every
beast taken only once or twice ; the amount of the fine was the same
in the seventeenth century (see Vol. II. $ N.S., p. 4). The verdict of
the Jury is interesting as showing the gradual development of the
forest. Formerly they said, before Blansby Park was enclosed, when-
ever a forester or woodward found an animal straying the fine belonged
to him as part of the perquisites of his office, but this perquisite ceased
on the enclosure of the Park. The same right also existed as regards
Dalby Launde until a forester at fixed wages was appointed, when the
rule was made that if the Earl's forester found such an animal present-
ment was made at the Court of Attachments, and the fine belonged to
the Earl ; otherwise, if the forester in fee found it, he retained his old
perquisite. In making their claims the foresters in fee each claimed
the fine only if ward had not been made (warda tamen inde non facta).
It is a phrase that has given me some difficulty, and I have made a
short note on it, which can hardly be called satisfactory, at p. 47. In
addition, I would refer to the Surtees Society, Vol. LXIX., p. 218,
where the same phrase occurs.

A joint right to the fines for straying cattle also existed in the barony
of Middleton. Thomas Wake (pp. 151, 152 and 160) claimed them,
and it was found that he was entitled to them if his foresters were the
first to seize them in the woods and moors, but not in the arable land,
and if the Earl's foresters were the first to find them, then presentment
was made at the Court of Attachments and the Earl had the fines.
The claim at p. 152 is somewhat confused owing to the scribe of the
Coucher Book having apparently misread bestiis on the Rolls for boscis.

Bridges and Roads.

In theory, if not in practice, every Englishman in person or by
deputy was bound, amongst other things, to repair and maintain roads
and bridges. In this respect the lands of the Church did not differ
from those of the laity, and a gift in frankalmoign freed the lands so
given from all services except those included in the trinoda necessitas.
How the obligation to repair bridges was enforced up to the reign of
Henry VIII. is not quite certain ; so far as roads were concerned the
obligation seems principally to have been enforced by the Manorial
Courts, who appear to have proceeded on a sort of general rule that
those whose lands adjoin a highway ought to repair it — a rule which has
occasionally been adopted in modern Acts of Parliament.

But however this obligation ought to have been enforced, there
seems little doubt that in practice it was almost a dead letter, and had
it not been for the Religious Houses the means of locomotion would
have been even more difficult than they were. While we find few if

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any, cases in which the general common law obligation to repair roads
and bridges is enforced, we do find a considerable number in which
such an obligation, arising by reason of and as incident to the tenure of
certain lands, is the subject of legal proceedings, but in nearly every
case that I have met with the land was originally granted to some
Religious House.

A very typical instance of this is the Inquisition taken by the Sheriff
of Middlesex to ascertain whether the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
ought, as Lord of the Manor, to repair the bridge at Hanworth, the
proceedings relating to which are reported in the Year Book 14 Ed. III.
(Rolls Series, p. 292). The jurors said that the bridge in question was
one near a mill for the benefit of the miller only, and of his neighbours
who wished their corn to be ground, but that it was not a bridge for
the common passage of the men of the country ; the Bishop therefore
escaped liability. It is easy to see that what in its origin was a mere
matter of favour in process of time is liable to be claimed as a right.
As Sir E. Coke puts it ("Institutes," Vol. II., p. 700), " JVbta if a
bishop or prior etc. hath at once or twice of almes repaired a bridge, it
bindeth not (and yet is evidence against him, untill he prove the con-
trary), but if time out of mind they and their predecessors have
repaired it of almes, this shall bind them to it."

That occasionally grants of land were made to Religious Houses for
the express purpose of providing for the repair of roads and bridges
there can be little doubt. The history of the bridges at Stratford atte
Bowe is too circumstantially told on the Coram Rege Roll of Easter
6 Ed. II., m. 95 (see " Abbrev. Placit.," p. 316), to be a pure fiction.
We are told that Queen Matilda, wife of Henry I., originally built
these bridges and made the road between them, and as she wished to
provide for their repair and thought that that object would be better
carried out by religious than by lay persons, she granted certain lands
burdened with this obligation to the Abbess of Barking, which lands
subject to their burden were afterwards transferred to the Abbot of
Stratford Langthorne.

The connection of the Religious Houses with the repair of bridges
and roads is considered at p. 35 et seq. of "English Wayfaring Life in
the Middle Ages " (fourteenth century), by J. J. Jusserand. He quotes
Elton's " Tenures of Kent," at p. 21. The Monks of Christchurch were
bound to contribute to the repair of Rochester Bridge, and when their
monastery was dissolved, and their lands to a great extent given to the
new Cathedral of Canterbury, the 'King's letters patent contained these
words, "that lastly the gifts of alms to the poor, the repairing of roads
and bridges, and other pious offices of every kind may increase and
spread far and wide, we give and grant, etc."

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In this volume we find two instances where roads and bridges are
alleged to be repairable by Religious Houses. One (p. 4) called the
bridge of Pul, must have been somewhere near Foulbridge, the contest
lay between the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem and the Prioress of
Yedingham. It was common ground that between them the road and
bridge ought to be repaired. The jury found that the bridge was
entirely constructed on land belonging to the Prior, and that he ought
to repair it as well as the road to the east of the bridge, while the Prioress
was only bound to repair the road to the west, which at that time was
not out of repair. This bridge was a bridge for carts and carriages.

In the other instance (p. 2) it was the Abbot of Rievaulx who was
presented for not repairing a bridge called Friar Bridge beyond the
Costa on the highway leading from Malton to Pickering. In con-
sequence of the non-repair it was said that persons passed through the
forests, treading down the pasture and destroying the food for the deer.
The Abbot did not deny his liability to repair it, and indeed repaired
it during the Eyre — a course that did not absolve him, but no doubt
was considered in mitigation of his fine.

It is noteworthy that the grant to the Abbey of Rievaulx by Henry II.,
of the waste below Pickering, in respect of which the burden of
repairing the bridge is said to have been created, is set out at p. 167 of
the Rievaulx Cartulary (Surtees Society, Vol. LXXXIIL); and yet there
is no reference to the land being subject to any such burden, nor is
there any reference to it in the confirmation of the grant by Richard I.,
at p. 127 of the same volume; while at p. 261 it is distinctly stated
that King Henry gave the monks the land in exchange for land at
Stainton, which Walter de Gant had given to them as the site for their
Abbey.

Through the courtesy of Mr. J. D. Whitehead, to whom I have had
to make a similar acknowledgment in my first volume, I am enabled
to sketch out the probable history of the Friar Bridge and the road
leading to it. The bridge itself must, I think, be that now known as
Howe Bridge, almost at the junction of the Costa and Derwent ; but
as against this view (see p. 162, n.) Howe Bridge is referred to under
that name in the extracts from the Rolls, also copied in the Malton
Coucher ; although it appeared in some legal proceedings of the year
1876, that the Pickering and Malton road has been slightly deviated
in recent years, yet Mr. Whitehead informs me that all the old tracks
seem to have converged to the point where the bridge now is.
At the date of the Eyre it was evidently a pack bridge only, i.e.
used for foot passengers and riders ; and when it was altered into a
bridge for carts and carriages, it would naturally follow that it became
a county bridge ; and this Howe Bridge at the present date is.

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The road leading to the bridge stood, however, in a different posi-
tion. In the year 1762, for the distance of nearly a mile, it was in
such bad repair that the township of Pickering was indicted at
Quarter Sessions. The matter was respited from Sessions to Sessions
for nearly two years. The following is the result : — At first the town-
ship admitted its liability. Afterwards it obtained leave to withdraw its
plea of guilty, and to plead that from the north end of the parts called
Birgo or Virgo Lane to Howe Bridge, it was repairable in two sections,
as to the Birgo Lane by the occupiers of the land on the east, and
as to the remainder by the occupiers on both sides. As to the part to
the north of Birgo Lane the township confessed its liability. At the
date of these proceedings, so we learn from the proceedings in 1876,
all the land to the south of Birgo Lane was uninclosed, part being
known as Smith's Moor and part as Hicks' Moor, called after their
respective occupiers. The occupiers of the several lands appeared and
admittted their liability to repair the causeway for horse and packway,
but not the carriage and cartway. The matter was tried and the verdict
was in favour of the township ; the liability to repair the whole of
the road from the north end of Birgo Lane to Howe Bridge being cast
upon the occupiers.

The following year the first of a series of Turnpike Acts, by which
the Malton and Pickering road was directed to be amended, widened,
and converted into a turnpike road, was passed. Amongst other
things the occupiers of the land burdened with repair, Marmaduke
Hicks, Peter Smith, and Thomas Clifford, were directed to perform six
days' statute work in every year upon the road, and were exempted
from further work. This provision was repealed in the year 1804, by
the Act 44 Geo. III., c. 63 (sects. 6, 7), the latter of which directs the
application of ;£ioo a year out of the tolls on the road, and appears
to restore the former liability ratione tenuras of the occupants to
supplement any deficit. When the Turnpike Trust came to an end, the
question as to the liability arose in another form. In the year 1876 it
was held by Mellor and Lush, J. J., that the effect of the widening of
the road was to destroy the old liability ratione tenurse ; while the
statutory liability, imposed by the Act of 1804, only continued so long
as the Act remained in force. The decision, I confess, seems to me
to have been sound ; though the effect was to saddle the township with
the repair of the road, and to exempt the occupants of the land, yet it
would have been far more unjust to have saddled the occupants with
the increased cost of keeping in repair a wider road of a different
nature. No doubt provision should and ought to have been made by
the Turnpike Acts for continuing the apportionment of the cost of
repair after the expiration of the Acts. From p. 2 of the present

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volume, it is evident that the bridge was for foot passengers and horse-
men only i but it does not necessarily follow that the road was
designed for similar traffic only, and not for carts and carriages also ;
such carts and carriages might have passed over an adjoining ford of
which the name Wath Hill, in the vicinity, preserves some trace.
When the bridge was altered I do not know, but in the reign of
Elizabeth (24 Eliz.) {see Vol. II., O.S., p. 301), it was spoken of as
Howe Bridge, and £$2 was spent on its repair. It was therefore then
a county bridge.

Religious Houses.

A few words may not, perhaps, be out of place to enumerate the
number of Religious Houses who either held land within the forest of
Pickering, or in some way or another became subject to the jurisdic-
tion of the Court. First in importance came the Abbot of Whitby.
He not only held lands at Goathland, but as the forest of Whitby
marched on its west boundary with the east boundary of the forest of
Pickering, disputes arising out of hunting were no uncommon occur-
rence. The claim of the Abbot of Whitby will be printed in the next
volume, and any remarks had better be deferred until then.

The Abbey of St. Mary's, York, was the neighbour of the Earl of
Lancaster on the west. The Forest of Spaunton, strictly speaking,
did not belong to the Abbot, the land did {see Reg. Mar., fol. 177),
but the game belonged to the King, whose foresters were not, however,
allowed to enter, the Abbot having the custody of hart, hind, wild-
boar and hawk: this also sufficiently appears from pp. 266-271 of
Vol. II., N.S., and p. 258 of the present volume. By grant from King
Henry I., confirmed by Henry II., the Abbot of St. Mary's was entitled
to tithe of venison throughout the county of York ; he also had the
custody of the Forest of Spaunton, and an exchange was made ; the
Abbot surrendered his right to the tithe in the forest of Galtres, and
by way of compensation had the forest of Spaunton ; the arrangement,
however, was for a limited time only, namely, five years. The arrange-
ment does not seem to have given entire satisfaction to the Abbot.
It was rare to find deer in Spaunton Forest, and the tithe in Galtres
was better worth having. The Abbot petitioned either that he might
have the tithe in Galtres again, or that the exchange might be perma-
nent instead of temporary, and that he might have license in mortmain
to purchase land at the value of ^20. The petition does not appear
to have been granted, and the arrangement was renewed for a further
term of five years.

The grant of tithe to the Abbot is worthy of observation. After
p. 118 was passed through the press I had an opportunity of collating

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its language with the Register of the Abbey in the Dean and Chapter
Library at York (Reg. Mar., fol. 177). So far as the operative words
are concerned there is no difference of importance ; the York Book
inserts the words semper before habeant. The witnesses have, how-
ever, been incorrectly copied in the Duchy Coucher ; they should have
been Humphrey Byng, capellanus, and Eudo Dapifer. A description of
the latter is given in Ellis's " Introduction to Domesday Book," Vol. I.,
p. 415 j he was the son of Hubert de Rie, and Steward of the House-
hold.

If my construction of the grant of tithe is correct the Abbot was
only entitled to a tithe of the dead deer ; he was not allowed to hunt
himself, but after the day's hunting one-tenth of the game should be set
apart and delivered to him. We have at p. 227 a somewhat similar
instance of payment of tithes in respect of water-fowl, herons and
egrets ; only instead of a tenth of the " bag " being given, the value
of a tenth was given ; the gift was to the King's Almoner, and not to
any ecclesiastical corporation.

In the case of the Abbot, however, he seems to have got his tithe in
the following manner : he himself hunted the deer in the presence
of the keeper of the forest ; if he took more than his proper proportion
the surplus was debited against him the next year • if he took less he
was allowed to make it up the next time that he came. For this offence
and for others, which will be seen at p. 121, the Abbot was fined the
large sum of ^"45. At Vol. II., N.S., pp. 122-142, there are numerous
instances of tithes being delivered to the Abbot, but there is nothing
to show in what manner the delivery was made ; at p. 86, however,
there is a presentment against Alexander de Bergh for having taken a
hind, as he alleged by way of tithe, on behalf of the Abbot ; the
offence presented is not that the Abbot ought not to have taken it,
but that Alexander had no warrant to do so.

How the custom to pay tithe died out I do not know, but it will have
been noticed that though, in Vol. I., N.S., pp. 156, 157, presents of
fallow-deer appear in the reign of Henry VII. to have been made to
the Abbot of St. Mary's, they are not stated to have been made in
respect of tithe.

The Cistercian Abbey of Rievaulx held a considerable amount of
land within the forest. We have already seen how they were bound to
repair a road and bridge. King Henry II. had granted to them the whole
of the waste below Pickering, and the Abbot also had land in Allerston
and Thornton (see Rievaulx Cartulary, Surtees Society, Vol. LXXXIII).
From the same source it appears that the waste was not entirely value-
less, but that several persons claimed or exercised rights over it, of all
which it became necessary for the Abbot to obtain a release. The

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tract of land in question lies to the south of Pickering — roughly speak-
ing, bounded to the south by the Derwent and to the west by the Costa.

Eustace son of John, the ancestor of the Vescys, appears to have
had some claim to pasture on it, which, by grant from him, confirmed
by Henry II., devolved on the Priory of Malton. A controversy
between the two Houses arose which was eventually compromised by
the mediation of the King, and the priory were permitted to have
common of pasture there for the thirty oxen with which they tilled
their lands at Malton, two bulls and thirty cows with their calves up to
the age of one year.

We find that in general a Religious House holding land within the
forest was entitled to special exemptions. This was especially the
case with the Monks of Rievaulx ; they enjoyed rights of fishery in the
Costa, Rye and Derwent (pp. 8 and 139), as the Canons of Malton did
in the two latter (p. 161). They could assart land, build houses and
sheepfolds, and agist at will ; they were exempt from lawing of their
dogs and of all assizes of the forest except those relating to game,
regards and hare-hunting.

Two important Houses of Gilbertine Canons, offshoots of Sempring-
ham, appeared and made their claims in somewhat similar language ;
the Priory of Malton, already referred to, and the Priory of Ellerton.
It is not probable that any large proportion of the burdens from which
they claimed exemption existed in Pickering Forest; probably they
took that opportunity of placing their rights upon record, possibly they
did it from excessive caution, not caring to dispute whether the
burdens existed or not. Their claims are, however, interesting,
because they give us (see pp. 104, 109) definitions of two forest
customs. One, that of buckstalls, or, as it was also called, stabilitio ; the
custom, namely, that compelled tenants within a forest to make enclo-
sures into which the deer were driven ; the other that of trists, namely,
the custom that certain persons were to hold hounds at fixed points
where the deer was likely to run in order to intercept them. I have,
in the Introduction to Vol. II., N.S., p. xxxviii, told how this method
of hunting is mentioned in the " Maister of the Game."

Asinthecaseof so many other Religious Houses, both Priories claimed
to be exempt from lawing of their dogs; the same exemption was claimed
by the Prior of Bridlington (p. 6), the Dean and Chapter of York
(pp. 127 and 155), and the Knights Hospitallers (pp. 141 and 144).

At the angle formed by the junction of the Rye and Derwent is a
meadow formerly known as Edusmarsh, and afterwards as Castle Ings.
In the sixteenth century it certainly belonged to the Duchy, and it
may have been the meadow referred to at Vol. II., N.S., p. 15, as
sixty-six acres of demesne meadow.

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We learn (at p. 162) that the Prior of Malton claimed the right to
pasture his cattle in this meadow after the hay had been carried.

For the most part, if not entirely, the possessions of the Knights
Hospitallers within the forest appear to have been those which
descended to them after the suppression of the Templars. Fowke-
bridge or Foulbridge has already been referred to ; in addition there
was a Master of Stainton (pp. 48, 58), for whom the Prior had to
answer ; there were also lands at Allerston. A question arose with
regard to Foulbridge (p. 147). It was suggested that at the date of
the suppression of the Templars their lands fell as escheats to the chief
Lord, namely, Earl Thomas, who granted Foulbridge to John de Dalton
for his life, and thus the liberties annexed to the Manor of Foulbridge
became extinguished. Afterwards came the Act of Parliament vesting
the lands in the Knights of St. John, and though I understand the
lease for life to John de Dalton to be admittedly superseded, yet the
argument appears to be that the liberties themselves were not revived.
The matter was eventually removed by writ of certiorari to the King's
Bench, but search on the Coram Rege Rolls has not resulted in the
discovery of the determination of the question.

With regard to Allerston a question of a different nature arose
(pp. 214-217). It was suggested that these lands formed a manor by
themselves, though, no doubt, held of Sir Ralph de Hastings, the
Lord of the Manor of Allerston. At the time of the suppression of
the Templars Sir Ralph appears to have seized their land and held it
for some forty years, when the Knights of St. John attempted to
recover it. The readiness with which Sir Ralph gave way suggested
doubts to the minds of the Judges whether this was not a device to
evade the provisions of the Statutes of Mortmain, of which one in
more stringent form had only recently been passed. An inquiry as to
this was therefore directed, but the Jury found that the claim was
perfectly bona fide, and that the Templars had owned the land in
question.

According to Burton's " Monasticon," p. 358, Father Robert de
Samford, minister of the Knights Templars in England, with the
advice and consent of the Chapter at London, granted to the monks
of Rieval a road beyond Grenehil in the territory of Allerston. I do
not find a reference to this grant in the Rievaulx Cartulary, although
at pp. 209 and 290 the road itself is referred to, and the probable date
of its grant by another person, John, son of Baldwin, is put by Canon
Atkinson somewhere about 1203. Moreover, in Pat. Rolls 5 Edward
II., part 1, m. 2 [January 24, 131 2], there is a grant to Alexander de
Abernythy of, amongst other manors, the Templars' manors of Fouke-
bridge and Allerston. I only refer to this as to some extent con-

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firmatory of the contention that the Templars held, if not amanor, at
any rate land in Allerston.

General History.

At pp. 224-228 will be found some'of the Wardrobe Accounts. They
commence with the expenses of Edward II. when at Pickering. This
was his second visit there, almost a year and a half after the death of
Earl Thomas. In 1322 the Scots under Robert Bruce had entered
England, and amongst other places had spoiled the monastery of
Rievaulx. We find a reference to this in the repayment to Sir Roger
de Felton of his ransom of ^"ioo, which his capture by the Scots,
October 10, 1322, had exacted from him. It will be remembered
(Vol. I., N.S., p. 4) that it was on the 17th October, 1322, that hostages
were delivered to Robert Bruce for payment of the ransom of Pickering
Lith. We learn from the account that the King hunted the stag there,
and paid to one of his huntsmen 10s for his day's employment. It was
not an uncommon thing for a King to celebrate his stay at a place by a
large distribution of alms ; for instance, when Edward III. was there in
1334 (just before the commencement of the Pickering Eyre) he spent
t2s 6d on 100 poor, three halfpence each, but if the Wardrobe Accounts
contain the whole of Edward II. 's generosity, his gift was limited to the
sum of three pence.

From Pickering Edward II. passed over the moors to Whorlton
Castle, where he intended to stay with Nicholas de Meynell. His
journey appears to have taken him at least a week ; what was the
course that he followed, and where he stayed, I cannot even conjecture.
He went by Lockton, and probably passed over Spaunton Moor,
which seems to correspond with what is called Blakho Moor ; Green-
how might be the moor above Ingleby Greenhow ; but this is far too
much to the north. We should expect him to have gone through
Bransdale and Bilsdale ; dropping down into the low country not far
from Faceby. The difficulty would be to find any place to stop at.
Perhaps being fine weather they camped out. It seems to have been
a hunting expedition, for he spent the sum of ,£5 and more at Scar-
borough in the purchase of cord for his hunting nets.

At Whorlton the hunting seems to have consisted of taking roedeer
in the Park ; while in the evening he had an opportunity of judging
whether Yorkshire deserved to be so famous for its singing as it was. It
is interesting to note that the song chosen was one relating to Simon de
Montfort. Two such are printed in the book prepared by Mr. Wright,
for the Camden Society, and I believe that they are the same as those
references to which I have given in the note.

The Accounts of Edward III. do not throw much light on his life

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at Pickering ; he hunted there apparently, and certainly lost a hound,
for which the finder, on bringing it to Beverley, received half a mark.

Conclusion.

The difficulty of determining what names are place-names and what
surnames, in even a general sense, has been as great in this volume as in
the preceding ; I have, however, in most cases retained the de, and only
translated it where there seemed a more than ordinary probabilty that
it only referred to the locality.

To those whom I have thanked in the preceding volumes, my thanks
for similar services are again due, as well as to those whose names
appear in other parts of this volume ; in addition to them I must
mention Canon Temple, by whose kindness I was enabled to see the
Register of St. Mary's Abbey, at a time when I fear that it was
inconvenient to him, and when the Dean and Chapter Library was not
open to the public.

Robert B. Turton.

24, Old Square, *

Lincoln's Inn,

November 6, 1896.

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Presentaciones super articulis de foresta apud Pykeryng coram
Ricardo de Wylughby, Roberto de Hungerford et Johanne
Hambury, Justiciariis etc. die Lune proximo post festum
sancti Michaelis anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii a con-
questu octavo.
Duodecim jurati istius foreste ad presentandum dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod Johannes de Melsa miles* dominus de Levesham
tenet communiter homines facientes et ardentes carbones de cabliciis
et sicco bosco in boscis ipsius Johannis de Levesham qui nunc est
infra limites foreste predicte, et carbones illos vendicioni exponit ad
dampnum domini et nocumentum ferarum ejusdem foreste, nesciunt
quo warranto. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum
etc. Postea venit predictus Johannes et dicit quod ipse et omnes
antecessores sui et tenentes manerii de Levesham a tempore quo non
extat memoria ceperunt cablicia et siccum boscum in boscis predictis
et inde fecerunt et arderunt carbones et postea eos vendicioni expo-
Matters relating to the Forest presented at Pickering before
Richard de Willoughby, Robert de Hungerford and John de
Hambury, Monday the 6th Oct., 1334.
The jury of twelve say on their oath that Sir John de Melsa, Lord
of Levisham, is in the habit of employing men to make and burn
charcoal out of browsewood and dry sticks in his woods at Levisham,
which are now within the bounds of the forest, and he exposes the
charcoal for sale, injuring the Lord and annoying the deer, by what
right they know not. Sir John is summoned, appears and pleads that
he and his ancestors and the tenants! of the Manor of Levisham have
from ancient time taken the browsewood and dry sticks in the said
woods and burnt them into charcoal, and afterwards exposed them
for sale and given them away at pleasure as part of his and their

* Son of Godfrey de Melsa and Scolastica his wife. See Patent Rolls 4 Ed. II.,
pt. m. 17, and 5 Ed. II., pt. 1, m. 1. See as to his title to the manor of Levesham
Vol. II., N.S., p. xxvii. t or holders.

VOL. III., N.S. B

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suerunt et pro voluntate sua dederunt tanquam partem manerii predicti
[258b] et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros istius foreste etc. Et
quia manifeste liquet Curie per responsionem ipsius Johannis quod
idem Johannes est in hac parte ad proficuum capiendum in foresta
predicta et non apposuit inde clamium suum in instanti Itinere primo
die ejusdem prout moris est et proclamatum fuit, consideratum est
quod libertas predicta capiatur in manum domini etc., et nichilominus
respondeat domino de valore ejusdem per medium tempus etc.
Postea venit predictus Johannes et peciit quod possit admitti ad finem
faciendum cum domino pro clamio suo inde apponendo et admittitur
per finem dimidie marce per plegium Ricardi de Naulton.

Iidem jurati presentant quod quidam pons qui vocatur Frerebrigg ultra
aquam de Costa per quam [sic] homines solebant transire de Pikeryng
usque Malton equites et pedites, pons predictus modo in tantum
dirutus est et confractus quod homines predicti ibidem transire non
possunt set circuiunt aliunde per forestam istam ad spacium unius
leuce ad nocumentum et conculcacionem et consumpcionem pasture
ferarum domini Comitis foreste predicte; et Abbas de Ryevall et omnes
Abbates loci predicti tenentur ilium reparare. Ideo preceptum est
vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum. Postea venit predictus Abbas et
non dedicit quin ipse et omnes Abbates loci predicti tenentur pontem
predictum reparare, sed dicit quod pons predictus non est dirutus
neque confractus ad presens, quin homines ibidem pertransire possunt

manorial rights. He asks that the officers of the Forest may try the
question. As it clearly appears to the Court by the answer of Sir
John that he is making a claim to take a profit in the forest which he
did not claim on the first day of the Eyre, as the custom is and as
proclamation was made, judgment is given that the liberty be seized
into the Lord's hands, and Sir John is to answer for its value in the
meantime. Afterwards Sir John appears and prays that he may be
allowed to pay a composition for making his claim, and a composition
of 6s 8d is fixed. Surety, Richard de Naulton.

The jury also present that a bridge called Friar Bridge beyond the
Costa, across which people are wont to pass on horseback and on foot
going from Pickering to Malton, is in such bad repair that people cannot
pass over, but have to make a divergence of about a mile and a half in
the forest, treading down and injuring the pasturage of the deer. The
Abbot of Rievaulx and all Abbots of that place are bound to repair it.
He is summoned, appears and does not deny that he and they are
bound to repair it, but he says that the bridge is not in such bad repair
that people cannot pass over it as they are wont and ought to do
without doing harm to anyone. He asks that an inquiry may be made

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prout solent et debent absque aliquo nocumento alicui faciendo et de
hoc ponit se super ministros ejusdem. Ideo per eosdem inquiratur
inde Veritas. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc
jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod post sumoni-
cionem istius itineris pons predictus dirutus fuit et confractus per quod
homines ibidem transire nequiuntes alibi circuierunt in foresta ad
nocumentum ferarum domini et pasture earundem conculcacionem, et
dicunt quod postmodum idem Abbas pontem ilium reparavit ita quod
nunc non indiget aliqua reparacione quin homines sufficienter ibidem
pertransire possint. Ideo idem Abbas quoad reparacionem pontis ad
presens eat inde sine die, set quia idem Abbas prius non reparavit,
ideo remanet in misericordia.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Prior de Bridlyngton qui nunc est
relevavit quandam bercariam apud Neulond in foresta longitudine
centum pedes hominis et latitudine xij pedes ad nocumentum ferarum
domini predicte foreste, que quidem bercaria alias in ultimo itinere
Justiciariorum istius foreste judicio prosternata [sic] fuit, nesciunt quo
warranto. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc.
Postea venit predictus Prior et petit admitti ad finem faciendum cum
domino in hac parte et quod arentare possit bercariam predictam sibi
et successoribus suis imperpetuum tenendam, eo quod bercaria jam
non est ad nocumentum ferarum domini. Et quia forestarii, viridarii
et regardatores hoc idem testantur, idem Prior admittitur ad finem j
marce per plegium Radulphi de Morton et similiter ei conceditur per

by the officers of the Forest. An inquiry is directed. The foresters,
verderers, and regarders, sworn and charged, say on their oaths that
after the summons for the Eyre was issued the bridge was in such bad
repair that people being unable to pass over it made a divergence into
the forest, annoying the Lord's deer and treading down their pasturage.
Afterwards the Abbot repaired it so that it requires nothing further,
and people can quite well pass over it. Therefore as to the present
repair of the bridge the Abbot is acquitted, but he is to be amerced
because he did not repair it before.

The jury also present that the present Prior of Bridlington erected
a sheepfold at Newland in the forest, 100 feet long and 12 feet broad,
injuring thereby the Lord's deer, notwithstanding that on another
occasion at the last Eyre of the Justices the sheepfold was ordered to
be taken down. By what right they know not. The Prior appears
and prays to be allowed to compound with the Lord, and that he and
his successors may rent the sheepfold in perpetuity, inasmuch as it no
longer injures the deer. Since the foresters, verderers and regarders
prove that this is so the Prior is permitted to compound by the pay-

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4 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

redditum vjd per annum ad festum sancti Michaelis imperpetuum.
Ideo idem Prior illam habeat et teneat sibi et successoribus suis
imperpetuum [259] pro redditu predicto extra regardum etc.

Iidem jurati presentant quod pons et via de Pul infra forestam istam
que sunt communes transitus ad carros, carrectas et omnia quecumque
alia cariagia vel summagia facienda ita dirute sunt et confracte quod
nullus possit ibidem pertransire, et Prior Hospitalis Sancti Johannis
Jerusalem, in Anglia racione terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
Magistri et Fratrum ordinis milicie Templi Salomonis et Priorissa de
Yedyngham tenentur pontem et viam predictas reparare et sustentare.
Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos etc. Postea
venerunt tam predicta Priorissa in propria persona sua quam predictus
Prior per Walterum de Trusseley attornatum suum. Et predicta
Priorissa dicit quod nee ipsa nee aliqua predecessarum [sic] suarum a
tempore quo non extat memoria unquam aliquo tempore pontem seu
viam predictas repararunt seu reparare tenentur, quia dicit quod
predictus Prior racione terrarum et tenementorum suorum que fuerunt
Magistri et Fratrum ordinis milicie Templi Salomonis que tenet, tenetur
dictos pontem et viam quocienscumque necesse fuerit reparare et sus-
tentare, Magistri et Fratres ordinis predicti ante cessacionem et
adnullacionem ejusdem ordinis a tempore quo non extat memoria
racione terrarum et tenementorum suorum quas tenuerunt apud Fouk-

ment of 13s 4d (surety Ralph de Morton), and he is likewise given
a grant for ever of the sheepfold at a yearly rent of 6d at Michaelmas.
The Prior is to hold it for ever quit of regard.

The jury also present that the bridge and road of Pul within the
forest which are common highways for carriages, carts, drifts and pack-
saddles are in such bad repair that none can pass over them. The
Prior of the Hospital of St. John, by reason of his tenure of lands
which formerly belonged to the Knights Templars, and the Prioress
of Yedingham, are bound to repair and maintain them. They are
summoned. The Prioress appears in person, the Prior by his attorney,
Walter de Trusseley.* The Prioress says that neither she nor any of
her predecessors ever from ancient time repaired or ought to repair it,
because she says that the Prior, by reason of his tenure of the lands
which belonged to the Templars, is bound to repair and maintain the
bridge and road as often as need requires, in the same way that the
Templars before the abolition of their Order from ancient time, by
reason of their tenure of their lands at Foulbridgef which the Prior

* This name is not quite clear. It sometimes seems written Trussebey. Walter
de Trusselay was bailiff" of the Liberty of Holderness. De Banco Rolls, 15 Ed. III.,
Easter, r, 241, d. f Foulbridge is a little to the east of Yedingham.

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brigge que* dictus Prior modo tenet, dictos pontem et viam repararunt
et sustentarunt, et hoc parata est verificare per ministros istius foreste.
Et Prior predictus per attornatum suum dicit quod ipse nee tenetur
dictos pontem et viam reparare racione terrarum seu tenementorum
aliquorum que tenet, prout eadem Priorissa asserit, set eadem Priorissa
terras et tenementa tenet apud Yedyngham et alibi, per que tenetur
eos reparare et sustentare, et hoc similiter petit quod inquiratur. Et
predicta Priorissa similiter. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per ministros
ejusdem foreste. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc
jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod Magister etFratres ordinis
milicie Templi Salomonis ante cessacionem et adnullacionem ordinis
predicti racione terrarum et tenementorum que tenuerunt et que
Prior Hospitalis modo tenet pontem predictum qui in solo suo
totaliter construitur et adhuc in eodem constructus est repararunt et
sustentarunt, et similiter viam ex parte occidentali ejusdem pontis
repararunt et sustentarunt, et Prior Hospitalis racione terrarum et
tenementorum suorum predictorum que tenet, tenetur pontem et viam
ex parte orientali ejusdem pontis quocienscumque necesse fuerit
reparare et sustentare. Dicunt eciam quod predicta Priorissa tenetur
viam ex parte occidentali dicti pontis u^que dictum pontem reparare
eo quod pons predictus omnino in solo ipsius Prioris construitur,
racione quarundam terrarum quas tenet; que via ad presens non indiget

now holds, repaired and maintained the bridge and road. She asks
that an inquiry may be directed. The Prior, by his attorney, denies
that he is bound by reason of his tenure of any lands or tenements to
repair the bridge and road, as the Prioress maintains ; but he says that
the Prioress, by reason of the lands which she holds at Yedingham
and elsewhere, is bound to repair and maintain them. He and the
Prioress both ask that an inquiry may be directed. The foresters,
verderers, and regarders being sworn, say on their oaths that the
Templars before the abolition of their Order, by reason of their
tenure of lands which the Prior of the Hospitallers now holds,
repaired and maintained the bridge which stands entirely on their own
ground, and likewise repaired and maintained the road to the east of
the bridge, and the Prior, by reason of his tenure of the same lands,
is bound to repair and maintain as often as need requires the bridge
and road to the east of it. Further they say that the Prioress, inas-
much as the bridge stands entirely on the Prior's ground, is bound to
repair the road to the west of the bridge by reason of her tenure of
certain lands, which road is not now out of repair. The judgment of
the Court is that the Prior be distrained to compel him to repair and
* The grant was made A.D. 1324 or thereabouts. .

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reparacione. Ideo consideratum est quod idem Prior distringatur ad
pontem predictum etviam ex parte orientali ejusdem pontis reparandum
et faciendum, et idem Prior in misericordia quia prius etc., et similiter
predicta Priorissa ad presens eat sine die inde, eo quod via ex parte
occidentali dicti pontis ad presens non indiget reparacione aliquali.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Prior de Bridlington tenet canes suos in
[259b] soca de Scalby infra metas foreste non expeditatos contra assisam
foreste, nesciunt quo waranto : ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod
venire faciat eum etc. Postea venit predictus Prior et dicit quod
dominus Stephanus quondam Rex Anglie progenitor [sic] domini
Regis nunc per cartam suam concessit in elemosinam Canonicis Sancte
Marie de Bridlyngton ecclesiam de Scalby cum capellis et terris ad
earn pertinentibus et omnibus aliis rebus que ad prefatam ecclesiam
pertinent, et precepit quod predicti Canonici bene et in pace, libere et
quiete earn tenerent per cartam ipsius quam hie profert et que hoc
testatur ; unde dicit quod virtute carte predicte ipse et omnes Priores
loci predicti, predecessores sui, a tempore quo non extat memoria
tenuerunt ecclesiam predictam cum capella predicta tanquam in
proprios usus ecclesie predicte annexa, et quieti fuerunt de expeditacione
canum suorum in soca predicta, et hoc paratus est verificare per
ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem.
Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores super hoc jurati dicunt
super sacramentum suum quod idem Prior est persona de Scalby et
tenet ecclesiam de Cloghton tanquam capellam ecclesie predicte

make good the bridge and road to the east, and is to be amerced
because he has not done it sooner, and the Prioress is to be acquitted
because the road to the west of the bridge is not at present out of
repair.

The Prior of Bridlington was indicted for keeping unlawed dogs in
Scalby Soke within the limits of the forest, contrary to the assize of
the forest. He appears and says that King Stephen, by deed granted
in alms to the Canons of St. Mary of Bridlington, the church of
Scalby with the chapels, lands and all else appurtenant thereto, and
commanded that the Canons might hold the same well, peaceably,
freely, and quietly. He produces the deed and vouches its contents.
Wherefore he claims that by virtue of the deed he and all his pre-
decessors as Priors have from ancient time held the church, together
with the chapel, as part of the private property of the church, and
have been quit of the lawing of their dogs in the Soke. He asks that
an inquiry may be directed. The foresters, verderers, and regarders
being sworn, say upon their oaths that the Prior is Rector of Scalby,
and holds Cloughton Church as a chapelry annexed to Scalby, and by

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annexam et racione terrarum suarum in Scalby ipse nee aliquis prede-
cessorum suorum nullo tempore aliquid solverunt pro expeditacione
predicta racione terrarum quas habet in villa de Cloghton ; consuevit
tamen ante hec tempora presentari quolibet tercio anno prout moris est
de canibus suis ibidem non expeditatis, et cum homines ejusdem ville
pro soca de Scalby finem fecissent pro canibus suis non expeditatis et
postea petivissent a predicto Priore tanquam pro porcione sua ejusdem
finis racione predictarum terrarum suarum in Cloghton que est
hamelettum de Scalby, predictus Prior nee aliquis predecessorum
suorum unquam aliquid solverunt, tamen ballivus castri qui pro
tempore fuit finem predictum totaliter levavit et recepit de soca
predicta, et cum aliquando contigerit quod homines ejusdem soke in
hac parte amerciati fuissent, senescallus ejusdem soke qui pro tempore
fuit asserebat se pro predicto Priore quoad amerciamentum ipsum
inde contingentem existere [sic] ; ita quod idem Prior vel aliquis pre-
decessorum suorum vel una causa vel alia nunquam aliquid ante hec
tempora pro expeditacione canum suorum solverunt ; et super hoc
datus est dies eidem Priori hie usque diem Lune proximum post
mensem Pasche apud Pikering de audiendo judicio suo. Ad quern
diem apud Pikering coram prefatis Justiciariis venit predictus Prior per
attornatum suum predictum* et dicit quod cum in magna carta de
libertatibus Anglie contineatur quod sancta ecclesia libera sit et habeat

reason of his tenure of lands in Scalby neither he nor any of his pre-
decessors has ever paid anything in respect of his lands in Cloughton
for hundgeld. Nevertheless he was wont before this to be indicted
every third year, as the custom is, for unlawed dogs, and when the
men of the village compounded on behalf of Scalby Soke for unlawed
dogs, and afterwards requested the Prior to pay his share of the com-
position in respect of his lands in Cloughton, which is a hamlet of
Scalby, neither the Prior nor any of his predecessors paid anything,
but the bailiff of Pickering Castle for the time being levied and
received the composition entirely from the [? rest of the] Soke. More-
over, whenever it happened that the men of the Soke were fined in
this behalf, the steward of the Soke for the time being asserted that he
was to be relieved (?) as to the Prior's share of the fine. So that
one way or another neither the Prior nor any of his predecessors ever
before these times paid anything for hundgeld. The Prior is ordered
to attend on Monday, 15 May, 1335, to hear judgment delivered.
He appeared by his attorney and said that in Magna Charta f it is
provided that the Holy Church shall be free, and shall enjoy her whole
rights and liberties inviolate, and that he and all his predecessors in
* See p. 8i,j>ost. t Sect. 1.

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omnia jura sua integra et libertates suas Mesas, et ipse Prior et omnes
Priores loci predicti, predecessores sui, a tempore quo non extat
memoria semper exonerati fuerunt virtute carte predicte de hujusmodi
expeditacione canum suorum, et ipse nee aliquis predecessorum suorum
aliquid a tempore predicto pro expeditacione predicta alicui solverunt
prout compertum est per veredictum predictum, petit judicium etc.
Ideo idem Prior ad presens eat inde sine die, salvo semper jure domini
Regis et Comitis, si alias inde loqui voluerit etc.

[260] *Iidem jurati presentant quod Abbas de Ryevall piscatus est
sepissime in aquis de Derewent, Costa et Rya que sunt dominice aque
et bunde foreste de Pikeryng ad dampnum domini Comitis, nesciunt
quowaranto; ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum.
Postea venit predictus Abbas et dicit quod quidam Eustachius filius
Johannisf olim dum mariscus subtus Pikeryng fuit in manibus pro-
genitoris domini Regis nunc tenuit in eodem marisco dimidiam
carucatam terre hidate J que nunc est ipsius Abbatis et infra divisas
suas ejusdem marisci, qui quidem mariscus et terra modo sunt maneria
de Loftmarreys, Lund, Neustede et Kekmarreys, quos dominus Henricus
secundus quondam Rex Anglie progenitor domini Regis nunc dedit
Deo et Beate Marie et ecclesie sue de Ryevall et monachis ibidem

his office of Prior were ever from ancient time exonerated from paying
hundgeld by virtue of the said deed, and have never paid anything as
the verdict of the jury finds to be the case. He prays judgment.
Judgment is given that the Prior be acquitted on the present occasion
without prejudice to the right of the King and Earl to raise the
question on a future occasion.

The jury also present that the Abbot of Rievaulx has often fished in
the waters of the Derwent, Costa, and Rye, which are demesne waters
and boundaries of Pickering Forest, injuring thereby the Earl ; by
what right they know not. He is summoned, appears and pleads that
Eustace, son of John, formerly while the marsh below Pickering was
in the hands of an ancestor of the present King, held within the
boundaries of the marsh half a carucate of hided land, which now
belongs to the Abbot. The marsh and land together comprise the
Manors of Loftmarishes, Lund, Newstead, and Kekkemarsh, which
Henry II. granted to the Abbey of St. Mary of Rievaulx, together
with the meadows, pastures, waters, fisheries, mills, and other things

• See Rot. Pat. 4 Rich II., pt. I, m. 35.

+ He was the father of William de Vescy. See Surtees Society, Vol. LXXXIII.,
p. 138.

% I apprehend that this word refers to taxation. It might, perhaps, be rendered
geldable.

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Deo servientibus cum pertinenciis suis in pratis, pasturis, in aquis,
piscariis et molendinis et omnibus aliis rebus per certas metas in
eadem carta contentas, ad que quidem maneria pertinuit ab antiquo
et de jure pertinere debet communa(m) piscaria(m) :* unde dicit quod
in predictis aquis de Derewent et Rya, videlicet a loco ubi Alverstanbek
cadit in Ryam usque ad locum ubi Costa cadit in Ryam, ipse et omnes
predecessores sui Abbates loci illius piscati sunt ut in piscaria sua
pertinenti ad terram predictam hidatam, et in predicta aqua de Costa,
scilicet ubi solum ipsius Abbatis se extendit ex utraque parte ejusdem,
idem Abbas et omnes Abbates loci predicti predecessores sui a tempore
quo non extat memoria piscati f sunt ut in solo suo proprio tanquam
parcella eorundem maneriorum et in predicta aqua de Costa scilicet
ubi idem Abbas solum habet ex una parte ejusdem idem Abbas et
omnes Abbates loci predicti predecessores sui semper a tempore quo
non extat memoria piscati sunt ut in piscaria sua pertinenti ad
terram hidatam predictam que sunt maneria sua predicta : et hoc
paratus est verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur
inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores
super premissis jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod
Abbas qui nunc est et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti pre-

appurtenant thereto by the boundaries mentioned in the deed, to
which Manors common of fishery has ever from ancient time belonged
and ought of right to belong. Therefore he claims that he and his
predecessors in the office of Abbot have fished in the waters of the
Derwent and Rye from the place where Allerston Beck falls into the
Rye to the place where the Costa falls into the Rye, as in a fishery
appurtenant to his land ; and also in the Costa where the soil on both
sides belongs to the Abbot he and his predecessors in office have from
ancient time fished as in their own land as parcel of the same Manors,
and in the Costa where he owns the soil only on one side he and his
predecessors in office have from ancient time fished as in a fishery
appurtenant to the land which comprises the Manors above-mentioned.
He asks that an inquiry may be directed. The foresters, verderers,
and regarders sworn and charged say upon their oaths that the present
Abbot, and likewise his predecessors in office, have ever from ancient

* Sic, but in Rot. Pat. 4 Rich. II. we find communam piscarie et communam
pasture. We should expect communa in each case. Letters and words enclosed in
round brackets appear in the text, but should presumably be omitted. Letters and
words enclosed in square brackets do not appear in the text, but should presumably
be inserted.

f As the next sentence is omitted from the Exchequer copy it is clear that the
Duchy Coucher cannot have been copied from it unless the scribe of the latter referred
to the original rolls.

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decessores sui semper a tempore quo non extat memoria piscati sunt
in aqua predicta de Costa ubi idem Abbas solum habet ex utraque
parte ut in solo suo proprio, et in predictis aquis de Derewent et Rya
per divisas predictas et similiter in predicta aqua de Costa ubi solum
ipsius Abbatis se extendit ex una parte ejusdem aque tantum versus
Ryam, idem Abbas qui nunc est et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti
predecessores sui semper a tempore quo non extat memoria piscati
sunt in eisdem ut in piscaria sua pertinenti ad predictam terram
hidatam que est maneria predicta.* Et quia predictus Eustachius Alius
Johannis tempore progenitoris domini Regis nunc antequam idem
Abbas qui nunc est seu aliquis predecessorum suorum aliquid in
marisco predicto habuit seu habuerunt, tenuit, ideo idem Abbas habeat
et teneat piscarias predictas, salvo semper jure Regis et Comitis cum
alias inde loqui voluerit.

Iidem jurati presentant quod cum Abbas de Whiteby habeat unum
clausum apud [260b] Gotheland infra forestam istam loco qui vocatur
Frerestede ubi ab antiquo habere debet viginti vaccas et unum
taurum solummodo et non plura averiaf per decern et aliquando plus
ad nocumentum ferarum istius foreste, nesciunt quo waranto ; ideo
preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc. Postea apud
Hakenesse infra libertatem predicti Abbatis venit predictus Abbas et
placitavit prout alibi patet. Ideo nichil ulterius hie.

time fished in the Costa where the Abbot owns the soil on both sides
as in his own land, and in the Derwent and Rye between the limits
above mentioned, and in the Costa where the Abbot owns the soil on
one side only towards the Rye, as in their fishery appurtenant to his
Manors. And since Eustace, the son of John, in the days of the King's
ancestor held it before the Abbot or any of his predecessors had any
right to the marsh, therefore the Abbot may hold the fishery, without
prejudice to the right of the King and the Earl to raise the question
on another occasion.

The jury also present that whereas the Abbot of Whitby has a close
at Goathland within the forest in a place called Friarstead, where from
ancient time he ought to have twenty cows and one bull only [he sur-
charges it with] ten [cows] and sometimes more, injuring the deer of
the forest, by what right they know not. He is summoned and appears
at Hackness as mentioned elsewhere. No further proceedings are
taken here.

* Rot. Pat. ends here with the words prout idem Abbas superius asserit ideo
Abbas inde sine die salvo semper jure etc.
+ Evidently some words are omitted.

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Iidem jurati presentant quod Abbas de Whiteby qui nunc est et
quidam tenentes sui de ipsius dimissione tenent infra forestam istam
loco qui dicitur Westcroft xxviij acras terre de veteri assarto et ilium
assartum inclusum tenent et dicti tenentes pro qualibet acra ejusdem
assarti reddent dicto Abbati quolibet anno vjd : nesciunt quo waranto ;
ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc. Postea
apud Hakenesse infra libertatem predicti Abbatis venit predictus
Abbas et placitavit prout alibi patet. Ideo nichil ulterius hie etc.

Iidem jurati presentant quod idem Abbas de Whiteby tenet unam
vaccariam in Gotheland in foresta ista ad dampnum domini Comitis et
nocumentum ferarum ejusdem foreste, nesciunt quo waranto, per
quod preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc. Postea
apud Hakenesse infra libertatem predicti Abbatis venit predictus
Abbas et placitavit prout alibi patet. Ideo nichil ulterius hie etc.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Gilbertus de Aton capit liberacionem
de housebote et haibote in boscis de Hoton et Aton et in bosco de
Ayclifside et Troucedale ex parte boriali et prosternere facit ligna in
eisdem et vendidit, clamando essendi extra regardum foreste, nesciunt
quo waranto ; ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum
etc. Postea venit predictus Gilbertus et inde allocutus dicit quod
nichil dedit nee vendidit quoad Hoton et Aton prout superius pre-
sentatum est et hoc petit quod inquiratur per ministros ejusdem
foreste ; et quoad residuum predicte presentacionis dicit quod ipse et

The jury also present that the present Abbot of Whitby and some
of his leasehold tenants hold twenty-eight acres of old assart within
the forest in a place called Westcroft, at a yearly rent of 6d an acre
paid to the Abbot, by what right they know not. The Abbot is sum-
moned and appears at Hackness as mentioned elsewhere. No further
proceedings are taken here.

The jury also present that the Abbot of Whitby holds a cowhouse
in Goathland in the forest, injuring the Earl and annoying the deer of
the forest, by what right they know not. He is summoned and appears
at Hackness as mentioned elsewhere. No further proceedings are
taken here.

The jury also present that Gilbert de Aton takes livery of housebote
and haybote in these woods, Hutton Bushell, Ayton, Ayclifside, and
Troutsdale on the north, and fells logs in them and sells all this,
claiming to be quit of regard ; by what right they know not. He is
summoned, appears, and when charged says that as to Hutton Bushell
and Ayton he neither gave nor sold aught as charged in the indict-
ment. He asks that an inquiry may be directed. As to the rest of
the indictment he says that he and his ancestors have ever from

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omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria ceperunt
liberacionem de housebote et haybote et tenuerunt boscum in Ayclif-
side et Troucedale extra regardum foreste et vendiderunt et dederunt
et prostraverunt boscum tam siccum quam viridem in bosco predicto
et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Qui
scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores jurati ad hoc dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod predictus Gilbertus non vendidit nee dedit
liberacionem prout superius presentatum est. Ideo idem Gilbertus
inde sine die. Postea venit predictus Gilbertus et finem fecit cum
domino Comite pro clamio suo in hac parte ponendo et admittitur per
xxd per plegium Ricardi de Naulton et Henrici de Kelke.

Iidem presentant quod Gilbertus de Aton agistare facit extranea
animalia in marisco de Hoton extra coopertum ad nocumentum
ferarum domini istius foreste, nesciunt quo waranto ; ideo preceptum
est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc. Postea venit predictus
Gilbertus et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui tenentes [261]
manerium suum de Hoton Bussel a tempore quo non extat memoria
seisiti fuerunt de hujusmodi agistamento tanquam pertinente manerio
predicto, et dicit quod ipse in principio istius instantis Itineris inter
alias libertates clamavit agistare in Hoton Ker qui est idem mariscus,
quod quidem clamium sibi allocatum fuit, et de hoc vocat recordum
rotulorum istius Itineris. Et super hoc scrutatis rotulis clamiorum istius
Itineris hoc idem compertum est, et ministri testantur quod mariscus

ancient time taken livery of housebote and haybote, and held the
woods of Ayclifside and Troutsdale as quit of regard of the forest,
and sold and given away and felled both dry and green wood in the
same wood. He asks that an inquiry may be directed as to this also.
The foresters, verderers, and regarders sworn say upon their oaths that
Gilbert never gave or sold any livery wood as charged in the indict-
ment. Afterwards Gilbert appears and makes a composition of Is 8d
with the Earl for leave to make his claim in this behalf. Sureties,
Richard de Naulton and Henry de Kelk.

The jury also present that Gilbert de Ayton causes the cattle of
non-residents to be agisted in Hutton Marsh beyond the covert,
annoying the deer of the forest, by what right they know not. He
is summoned, appears, and says that he and his ancestors while hold-
ing the Manor of Hutton Bushell have from ancient time been seised
of this agistment as appurtenant to the Manor, and that at the com-
mencement of this present Eyre he claimed, amongst other liberties,
the right to agist in Hutton Carr, which is the same as the marsh.
The claim was allowed. He craves leave to refer to the Forest Rolls.
On searching the Rolls this is found to be the case, and the officers of

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de Hoton et Hoton Ker sunt una et eadem placea. Ideo idem
Gilbertus eat inde sine die.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Magister Johannes de Edbreston, ber-
carius Thome del Stroyer, Willelmus del Howe et Robertus filius
Alani de Northumbria superonerant pasturam in foresta ista per
attraccionem omnium extraneorum de patria ad nocumentum ferarum
domini istius foreste et dampnum domini ; ideo preceptum est vice-
comiti quod venire faciat eos. Postea venerunt predicti Magister
Johannes, Thomas, Willelmus et Robertus filius Alani et super
premissa [? premissis] allocuti dicunt singillatim quod ipsi non possunt
hoc dedicere et petunt quod possunt admitti ad finem faciendum cum
domino in hac parte et admittitur [? admittuntur] prout alibi patet.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Robertus Couperell nuper garcio
forestarii in Foulwode, Thomas le Fleccher garcio Ricardi de Helmele,
Radulphus filius Matillidis nuper garcio Galfridi de Kynthorp, Thomas
le Pynder nuper garcio Roberti de Neustede wodewardi de Thornton,
Rogerus garcio Ricardi de Dalby nuper wodewardi de Brumpton,
Ricardus Malleson garcio ejusdem Ricardi, Thomas Barry nuper
garcio in Haia, Willelmus Reysemist [?], Ricardus Shiphill, Henricus
Foushau et Johannes filius Ade garcio Hugonis de Yeland non jurati
divadiant quamplures homines in foresta ista transeuntes,* et sic
divadiarunt Hugonem Geryng et Johannem Edmundum et quamplures
alios contra assisam foreste ; ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod
venire faciat eos. Postea venerunt predicti Robertus et alii et finem
fecerunt cum domino prout patet in rotulis de extractis. Ideo nichil
ulterius de eis.

the forest prove that Hutton Carr and Hutton Marsh are one and
the same place. Gilbert is acquitted.

The jury also present that Master John of Ebberston, the shepherd
of Thomas del Stroyer, William del Howe, and Robert, son of Alan of
Northumberland, surcharge the pasturage in the forest by taking in
cattle of non-residents in the country, annoying the deer of the forest,
and injuring the Earl. They are summoned, appear, and cannot deny
the charge, but ask to be allowed to compound for their offence.
They make a composition as appears elsewhere.

The jury also present that the servants whose names are mentioned,
although unsworn, take pledges from persons passing through the
forest, and in particular from Hugh Geryng, John Edmund, and
several others, contrary to the assize of the forest. They are sum-
moned, appear, and make a composition as appears in the Estreat
Rolls. Further proceedings are stayed.

* This probably refers to the custom of cheminage.

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Iidem jurati presentant quod Robertus de Wygan nuper forestarius
equites * in foresta ista colore officii sui cepit averia de Edbreston in
communa de Roston et Wykham et ea fugavit de foresta usque
Hakenesse et ea ibi imparcavit contra assisam foreste quousque
homines dicte villate finem fecerant cum eo per dimidiam marcam
pro dictis averiis liberandis ; ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire
faciat eum etc. Postea venit et finem fecit occasione predicta per
dimidiam marcam per plegium Henrici de Kelk et Radulphi de
Morton.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Johannes de Shirburn cariavit maere-
mium de Stonidale infra forestam ad estimacionem unius quercus
precii vjd usque Shirburn ad domos suas ibi edificandas contra assisam
foreste ; ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc.
Postea venit et finem fecit cum domino per plegium Thome Bret et
Radulphi de Morton prout patet in extractis.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Hugo de Yeland nuper forestarius
equites del Estward [261b] istius foreste colore ballive sue habet unura
jumentum cum duobus staggis in Haia de Scalby, et quod propter
desidiam ipsius Hugonis et insufficientem custodiam siccus boscus et
ramunculi a predicta Haia de Scalby annuatim deportantur ad damp-
num domini ijs; et idem Hugo colore ballive sue capit de quolibet

The jury also present that Robert de Wygan, late riding forester,
under colour of his office, took cattle belonging to Ebberston in the
common of Ruston and Wykeham, drove them out of the forest to
Hackness, and impounded them there contrary to the assize of the
forest until the men of Ebberston had redeemed them for 6s 8d. He
is summoned, appears, and compounds for 6s 8d. Sureties, Henry de
Kelk and Ralph de Morton.

The jury also present that John de Shirburn carried timber, esti-
mated to consist of an oak worth 6d, from Staindale [?] within the
forest, to Shirburn to build his houses there, contrary to the assize of
the forest. He is summoned, appears, and compounds as appears
elsewhere. Sureties, Thomas Bret and Ralph de Morton.

The jury also present that Hugh de Yeland, late riding forester of
the East Ward, under colour of his bailiwick, keeps a mare and two
colts in Scalby Hay, and through his sloth and insufficient watchfulness
dry wood and small branches are yearly carried away from the Hay,
causing the Earl to suffer damage amounting to 2s. Furthermore,
Hugh, under colour of his bailiwick, takes half a bushel of oats from

* At Vol. II., N.S., p. 198, he is only called forester. This is the first mention
of the office.

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homine de Hartoft dimidium bussellum avene* in magnam oppressionem
hominum predictorum ; ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire
faciat eum etc. Postea venit et finem fecit prout alibi patet.

Iidem jurati presentant quod cum Johannes t de Monemuth viginti
solidos, unum toftum et duas bovatas terre cum pertinenciis in
Pikeryng habeat, Johannes Scot triginta solidos per annum et Willelmus
Courtman quinque solidos de domino habeant essendi forestarii in le
Westward ad custagia domini, tamen predicti Johannes de Mone-
muth, Johannes et Willelmus superonerant omnes homines de victu
suo et garcionum suorum sibi prestando ad nocumentum patrie ; ideo
preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos etc. Postea venerunt
et finem fecerunt prout alibi patet.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Ricardus Cokard de Helmesley,
Johannes de Harlay, Willelmus Gower forestarius de Scalby, Langedon
et Foulewode colore officii sui colligunt garbas in autumpno et lanam
et habent garciones ad victum patrie, ubi nullos habere debuerunt ad
nocumentum et dampnum patrie. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti
quod venire faciat eos etc. Postea venerunt predicti Ricardus,
Johannes et Willelmus et fecerunt finem pro se cum domino prout
patet in rotulis de extractis. Ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Johannes de Shirburn extraxit
maeremium cujusdam domus in Pykeryng que est infra forestam usque

every man of Hartoft, greatly oppressing the village. He is sum-
moned, appears, and compounds as appears elsewhere.

The jury also present that whereas John de Monmouth has 20s [? a
year] a toft and two oxgangs of land, with the appurtenances in Pick-
ering, John Scot 30s a year, and William Courtman 5s at the Earl's
expense for being foresters in the West Ward, yet they surcharge all
the inhabitants with their living and that of their servants, annoying
the country. They are summoned, appear, and compound as appears
elsewhere.

The jury also present that Richard Cockard of Helmsley, John de
Harlay, and William Gower, forester of Scalby, Langdale, and Full-
wood, under colour of their office, collect sheaves in autumn and wool
and keep servants on board in the country, as they ought not, annoy-
ing and injuring the country. They are summoned, appear, and
make composition as appears in the Estreat Rolls. Further proceed-
ings are stayed against them.

The jury also present that John de Shirburn drew the timber of a

* See Foster oats, Vol. II., N.S., p. 7.

+ Sic in Exchequer and evidently altered from homines which occurs in the Duchy
Coucher.

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Shirburn extra forestam, et quod Johannes Bele de Westhesekrton
extraxit maeremium cujusdam grangie in Pykeryng que est infra
forestam usque Westheselarton extra forestam, et quod idem Johannes
de Shirburn et Thomas Bret similiter extraxerunt maeremium
cujusdam domus apud Pikeryng infra limites foreste usque Shirburn
extra forestam ad dampnum domini et contra assisam foreste. Ideo
preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos etc. Postea venerunt
predicti Johannes de Shirburn, Johannes Bele et Thomas, et quilibet
eorum fecit finem pro se cum domino prout patet in rotulis de extractis.
Ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Henricus de Hykkelyng, Senescallus
Thome Wake de Lydel domini de Cropton, dedit cuidam Johanni de
Monemuth duos ramos quercuum in le Frith absque alicujus forestarii
liberacionem [? liberacione] contra assisam foreste. Ideo preceptum
est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc. Postea venit predictus
Henricus et finem fecit cum domino per xxd prout patet in rotulis de
extractis. Ideo nichil ulterius de eo.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Willelmus de Shepley, Rogerus de
Fissheburn, Ricardus Dayes, Willelmus de Fissheburn, Thomas de Bos-
shale, Ricardus Cholman, Bartholomeus de Flaucourt [? Fanacourt],
Galfridus de Lepyndon, Thomas Sturmy, [262] Robertus Tuphirst,
Michael Forestarius, Willelmus filius Thome de Egton, Thomas de
Pykton et Johannes Barbour vi et armis impediverunt regardatores
facere regardum suum in foresta predicta in Ravenclif in dampnum et
contemptum domini. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire

house in Pickering within the forest to Shirburn without the forest,
and John Beal of West Heslerton drew the timber of a barn in
Pickering within the boundaries of the forest to West Heslerton
without the forest, and John de Shirburn and Thomas Bret likewise
drew the timber of a house at Pickering within the boundaries of the
forest to Shirburn without the forest, injuring the Earl and contrary to
the assize of the forest. They are summoned, appear, and each makes
composition as appears in the Estreat Rolls. Further proceedings are
stayed against them.

Henry de Hickling, steward to Thomas Wake of Liddel, Lord of
Cropton, gave two oak branches to one John de Monmouth without
livery of the foresters contrary to the assize of the forest. He is
summoned, appears and makes composition for is 8d as appears in the
Estreat Rolls. Further proceedings are stayed against him.

Several men forcibly impeded the regarders from making their
regard at Raincliff within the forest, thereby injuring and insulting the
Earl. They are summoned and appear. Roger de Fishburn and

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faciat eos. Postea venerunt predicti Willelmus et omnes alii, et pre-
dictus Rogerus de Fissheburn protulit cartam domini de pardonacione
istius transgressionis sibi facte, et pred ictus Johannes Barbour protulit
literam domini Justiciariis hie directam que testatur quod dominus
pardonavit ei transgressionem predictara. Ideo ipsi ad presens eant
inde quieti. Et predicti Willelmus et omnes alii fecerunt finem prout
alibi patet in rotulis de extractis etc.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Edmundus Lacy de Folketon,
Willelmus de Salford persona ecclesie de Folketon et Robertus de
Yemelyne* jam diu post ultimum iter Justiciariorum istius foreste
fecerunt qundam purpresturam in foresta ista que continet quater
viginti acras pasture de marisco infra forestam istam, illam includendo
ex parte una longitudinis dimidie acref et appropriando sibi dictum
solum et ilium solum asserendo non esse de foresta; precii cujuslibet
acre per annum iiijd ; nesciunt quo warranto. Ideo preceptum est
vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos. Postea venerunt predicti
Edmundus et Willelmus et dicunt quod nullum clausum fecerunt
ibidem : dicunt preterea quod villata de Folketon est omnino extra
forestam preter quandam placeam continentem triginta acras pasture
versus Cayton distans ab eis, ultra quandam partem marisci in eadem
foresta que est eadem placea de qua fit mencio superius in presenta-
cione, qui quidem mariscus in ultimo Itinere Justiciariorum istius
foreste, tempore Edmundi nuper Comitis Lancastrie, patris domini
Comitis nunc, arentatus fuit ipsi Comiti et heredibus suis per Ricardum
Lacy patrem ipsius Edmundi per vs per annum annuatim eidem Comiti

John Barbour produce pardons from the Earl ; the rest make com-
position as appears in the Estreat Rolls.

Edmund Lacy of Folkton, William de Salford, Rector of Folkton,
and Robert de Themelyne, long after the last Eyre, made a purpresture
in the forest containing eighty acres of pasture in the marsh (at 4d an
acre), by inclosing half an acre in length [?] and appropriating the
ground, asserting that it was no part of the forest, by what right they
know not. They are summoned, appear, and deny having made an
inclosure. Moreover they say that the township of Folkton is entirely
without the forest except a piece of ground containing thirty acres
some distance from them at Cayton, and besides the piece of ground
mentioned in the indictment being a portion of the marsh in the
forest, which marsh at the last Eyre in the days of Edmund, Earl of
Lancaster, was rented from the Earl and his heirs by Richard Lacy,
father of Edmund, at the annual rent of 5s, to be paid to the Earl

* Themelyne in Exchequer.

t I apprehend that this is corrupt. Probably knee is the true reading.
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solvendos pro chacea et rechacea sua ad pasturam suam predictam
habenda, quem quidem redditum homines ejusdem ville adhuc solvunt,
et sic dicunt quod ipsi tenent placeam illam de domino Comite pro
redditu predicto absque aliqua injuria seu purprestura contra assisam
foreste facienda, et hoc petunt quod inquiratur. Ideo inquiratur inde
Veritas per ministros istius foreste et alios. Qui scilicet forestarii,
viridarii et regardatores ad hoc electi et jurati dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod mariscus de quo fit mencio in presentacione
continet in se quater viginti acras pasture et est infra forestam et
pertinet ad villain [? villas] de Lebreston, Kilwardby et Cayton, ita
quod predicta villa de Folketon que est omnino extra forestam et
predicte ville de Lebreston, Kilwardby et Cayton que sunt infra
forestam inter se non comunant, set dicunt quod in ultimo itinere
Justiciariorum istius foreste homines predicte ville de Folketon dictum
mariscum arentarunt domino Edmundo nuper Comiti, patri Comitis
nunc, pro vs per annum annuatim eidem Comiti et heredibus suis
solvendis imperpetuum pro communa sua ibidem habenda, qui quidem
redditus adhuc annuatim solvitur custodi Castri de Pikering. Quesiti
eciam iidem jurati si [262b] predictus mariscus plus valeat per annum
quam predictos quinque solidos, qui dicunt quod predictus mariscus valet
per annum xiijs iiijd, et quod non est ad dampnum domini neque ad
nocumentum ferarum istius foreste licet homines predicti de Folketon
habeant communam pasturam in marisco predicto pro xiijs iiijd per
annum. Ideo iidem Edmundus, Willelmus et Robertus et homines
ville predicte de Folketon onerentur erga dominum de superplusagio

for the right of driving cattle to and from the pasture. This rent the
men of the village still pay, wherefore they claim that in holding the
piece of ground at the above rents they do no injury or purpresture or
aught contrary to the assize of the forest. They ask that an inquiry
may be directed. The foresters, verderers, and regarders chosen and
sworn say on their oaths that the marsh mentioned in the indictment
contains eighty acres of pasture, is within the forest and belongs to the
townships of Lebberston, Killerby, and Cayton, so that these townships
and the township of Folkton, which is entirely outside the forest, do
not intercommon, but they say that at the last Eyre the men of the
township of Folkton rented a right of common in the marsh from Earl
Edmund at the annual rent of 5s, to be paid to the Earl and his heirs,
which rent is still paid annually to the keeper of Pickering Castle.
Being asked whether the marsh is worth more than 5s a year, they say
that it is worth 13s 4d, and that it will not injure the Earl or annoy
the deer of the forest if the men of Folkton enjoy their common of
pasture in the marsh at the rent of 13s 4d, Therefore Edmund,

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valoris marisci predicti per annum a principio istius instantis itineris
usque nunc videlicet pro quinque annis,* ultra vs, quolibet anno viijs
iiijd, qui se extendit ad xljs viijd, et dictum est eisdem quod amodo
ibidem non communant nisi pro predicto redditu xiijs iiijdf annuatim
domino Comiti solvendo periculo quod incumbit juxta assisam foreste.

Iidem jurati presentant quoad articulum de thesauro invento infra
limites foreste quod Willelmus de Touthorp et Agnes uxor ejus,
Alicia que fuit uxor Willelmi de Maulay et Willelmus de Langebarn
[? Langebaurgh] vagantes per medium istius foreste invenerunt in
quodam loco vocato Wydaleheved et Bonestauris infra forestam istam
thesaurum scilicet aurum, argentum et alia jocalia ad valenciam viginti
librarum quod domino Comiti pertinet, et asportaverunt, et manentes
sunt in patria. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos.
Postea venerunt et dicunt quod ipsi nullum thesaurum invenerunt
prout eis imponitur et de hoc ponunt se super patriam. Et jurati ad
hoc electi dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predicti Willelmus
Langebarn, Alicia et Willelmus de Touthorp et Agnes uxor ejus nullum
thesaurum invenerunt sicut de eis presentatum est. Ideo ipsi eant
inde sine die.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Edmundus de Lacy [et] Willelmus de
Brygham de Flixton vi et armis et contra pacem domini Regis impedi-
verunt regardatores istius foreste facere regardum in Cayton Ker,

William, and Robert, and the men of the township of Folkton are
charged in favour of the Earl with the excess of value from the com-
mencement of the present Eyre — i.e., five years at 8s 4d a year, in all
£2 is 8d, and they are forbidden under penalties imposed by the
assize of the forest to common in future except at the rent of 13s 4A

As to treasure trove within the forest, William de Touthorp and
Agnes his wife, Alice, late wife of Wm. de Maulay, and Wm. de Lange-
baurgh, whilst wandering through the forest found at Wydale Head
and Bonestauris [?] treasure consisting of gold, silver, and other jewels
to the value of ^20, which belongs to the Earl, and carried it off.
They are summoned, appear, deny that they found any treasure as
charged, and ask that an inquiry may be directed. The jury chosen
for this purpose say on their oath that the persons indicted found no
such treasure. Therefore they are acquitted.

Edmund de Lacy and William de Brigham, of Flixton, forcibly and
against the Earl's peace prevented the regarders of the forest from
making their regard in Cayton Carr, Lebberston Carr, and Osgodby

* This is interesting as showing the duration of the Eyre.

t But later they seem to have paid only the old rent of 5s. See Vol. I., N.S.,
pp. 19, 52.

20 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Lebreston Ker et Osgodby Ker prout eis de mandato domini Regis
injunctum fuit, et manentes sunt in patria. Ideo preceptum est vice-
comiti quod venire faciat eos etc. Postea venerunt predicti Edmundus
et Willelmus et dicunt quod ipsi in nullo sunt culpabiles de trans-
gressione predicta et de hoc ponunt se super ministros ejusdem.
Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii,
viridarii et regardatores ad hoc electi dicunt super sacramentum suum
quod predicti Edmundus et Willelmus in nullo sunt culpabiles de
transgressione predicta. Ideo ipsi eant inde quieti.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Robertus Themelyn de Folketon,
Philippus serviens Simonis de Aton, Thomas de Helme, Ricardus le
Taillour, Robertus le Shortred, Willelmus Cook, Willelmus filius
Johannis Lacy, Galfridus serviens persone de Folketon et Robertus
Chamberlayn et alios [? alii] quamplures homines ville de Folketon
qui sunt omnino extra forestam jam viginti quatuor annis elapsis
superoneraverunt pasturam in quodam marisco infra forestam istam
prope predictam villam [263] de Foweton cum averiis suis et similiter
combusserunt decern cassos* turbarum, fhggorum et cirporum quos
homines ville de Lebreston, Gristhorp, Cayton et Osgodby coadun-
averant sumptibus suis propriis tanquam in communa sua pro expensis
suis ivernagii in exilium et nocumentum ferarum domini istius foreste
et contra pacem etc et manentes sunt in patria. Ideo preceptum est
vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos etc. Postea venerunt predicti
Robertus et alii et dicunt quod ipsi non superoneraverunt pasturam
predictam nee aliquos hujusmodi cassos combusserunt sicut de eis
superius presentatum est et de hoc ponunt se super patriam. Ideo
net inde Jurata. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc
electi et jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod quoad superone-

Carr, as they were bidden to do by the King's order. They are sum-
moned, appear, and plead not guilty of the offence, and ask that an
inquiry may be directed. They are found not guilty and acquitted.

Robert Themelyn, of Folkton, Philip, servant of Simon de Aton,
Thomas de Helme, Richard the Tailor, Robert le Shortred, William
Cook, William, son of John Lacy, Geoffrey, servant of the Rector of
Folkton, Robert Chamberlain, and several other men of Folkton which
is entirely outside the forest, have for the last four-and-twenty years
surcharged with their cattle the pasture in a certain marsh within the
forest, near the village of Folkton, and likewise have burnt ten stacks
of turves, sedges, and rushes which the men of Lebberston, Gristhorpe,
Cayton, and Osgodby had at their own expense collected for the
winter in exercise of their common rights. They are summoned,
* Evidently either a clerical error or synonym for tassos, which occurs later.

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racionem pasture in nullo sunt culpabiles. Dicunt eciam quod cum
distancia fuisset inter villatas de Lebreston, Gristhorp, Cayton et
Osgodby et predictam villain de Foweton pro quadam placea prati pre-
dictarum villarum que sunt infra forestam, et ipse villate pratum* suum
predictum falcarunt et tassos inde fecerunt, predicti homines de
Foweton tassos predictos totaliter et maliciose combusserunt. Ideo
predicti Robertus et alii quoad superoneracionem pasture eant inde
quieti, et quoad residuum capiantur. Postea venerunt predicti Gal-
fridus et Robertus Chamberleyn et fecerunt finem cum domino, videlicet
predictus Galfridus pro quinque solidis et predictus Robertus pro
quinque solidis prout patet in rotulis de extractis.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Michael de Bulmere de Aton et
Ricardus Rideman, Thomas de Snaynton, Johannes Pedes, Willelmus
de Osgodby, Johannes Ryntour, Robertus Derlyng, Johannes Tome-
lynsone de Irton, Johannes Pedour, Willelmus de Osgodby, f et
Johannes Alius Ricardi le Clerc consueti sunt fodere turbas in marisco
de Hoton extra communam suam in foresta ista, et similiter depascere
averia sua ibidem ubi non habent communam ad dampnum domini et
nocumentum ferarum. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire
faciat eos etc. Postea venerunt predicti Michael et alii et dicunt quod
non possunt hoc dedicere. Ideo ipsi committuntur prisone. Postea
venerunt et pecierunt quod possunt admitti ad finem faciendum cum
domino in hac parte et admittuntur per quadraginta solidos per
plegium alter alterius.

appear, and deny that they have surcharged the pasture or burnt the
stacks. They ask that an inquiry may be directed. They are found
not guilty of surcharging the pasture, but the jury say that when there
was a difierence between the townships of Lebberston, Gristhorpe,
Cayton, and Osgodby on the one hand, and Folkton on the other
hand with regard to a piece of meadow belonging to the first-mentioned
townships which are within the forest, and such townships mowed and
stacked their hay, the men of Folkton maliciously burnt the stacks
completely. Afterwards Geoffrey and Robert Chamberlain appear and
each compound for five shillings.

Michael de Buhner, of Ayton, and others are wont to cut turves in
Hutton Marsh beyond the common rights in the forest, and likewise to
feed their cattle there where they have no common. They are sum-
moned, appear, plead guilty, and are sentenced to be imprisoned.
Afterwards, at their request, they are permitted to compound for 40s,
one being surety for another.

* I translate this hay for want of a better word. But it no doubt refers to the
sedges that grow on a marsh.

t TliCoC tsvo namci are probably muely repetition.

22 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Henricus le Fouler de Bergh, Adam
le Fouler de Aton, Willelmus Hare et Willelmus Fox sunt captores
volucrum in foresta cum visco, laquibus et aliis ingeniis ad nocumentum
ferarum et dampnum domini. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod
venire faciat eos. Postea venerunt et finem fecerunt cum domino
Comite prout patet in rotulis de extractis.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Gilbertus de Aton* summoniri fecit
per duos annos post summonicionem istius itineris cotarios et tenentes
de Hoton veniendum ad Curiam suam in Hoton pro herbagio depasto
cum averiis suis in foresta ista contra assisam foreste, nesciunt quo
warranto. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum etc.
Postea venit predictus Gilbertus et inde allocutus dicit quod non
potest hoc dedicere. Ideo ipse committitur prisone. Postea venit et
peciit quod possit [263b] admitti ad finem faciendum cum domino
in hac parte et ei conceditur per ij marcas per plegium Willelmi Plays
chivaler et Thome Bret prout alibi patet.

Iidem jurati presentant quod Gilbertus de Aton attraxit [? ad]
boscum suum de Troucedale quem clamat tenere extra regardum de
bosco et mora istius foreste qui est infra regardum apud Blaklousenese
circiter numerum viginti acrarum more et amplius, nesciunt quo waranto.
Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum. Postea venit
predictus Gilbertus et dicit quod ipse nichil attraxit ad boscum qui est
extra regardum de bosco et mora istius foreste prout de eo presentatum

Henry the Fowler, of Barugh, Adam the Fowler, of Ayton, W'lliam
Hare and William Fox catch birds in the forest by means of birdlime,
nets, and other contrivances. They are summoned, appear, and com-
pound as appears by the Estreat Rolls.

Gilbert de Ayton during two years after the commencement of the
Eyre caused the cottars and tenants of Hutton Bushell to be sum-
moned to appear at his Court for having pastured the herbage in the
forest with their cattle contrary to the assize of the forest : by what
right is not known. He is summoned, appears, pleads guilty and
is sentenced to be imprisoned. At his request he is allowed to
compound for £1 6s 8d. Sureties, Sir Wm. Plays and Thomas
Bret.

Gilbert de Ayton has extended his claim to hold Troutsdale Wood
outside the regard of the forest by adding over twenty acres of moor
at Backleys Point [?], which should be within the regard. He is

* I apprehend that the Justice Court when sitting assumed exclusive jurisdiction,
and the powers of smaller Courts were, for the time being, suspended, so that it was
an offence for the latter to exercise a jurisdiction which, at another time, could have
been lawfully exercised.

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est et petit quod inquiratur per omnes ministros istius foreste. Ideo
inquiratur* inde Veritas per eosdem.

Iidem jurati presentant quod cum in instanti itinere allocatum sit
forestariis de feodo in le Estward [? Westward] in clamiis suis quod
habeant cabilicia ilia videlicet que per hachettum subforestariorum
possunt dilacerari a stipidibus et non alia, Willelmus de Percy
[? Percehay] miles unus forestariorum de feodo grandes ramos quer-
cuum vento in parte a stipidibus dilaceratos et quosdam ad terram
inclinatos et quosdam ad terram prostratos qui per cornerium hachetti
sui non poterat dilacerare a stipidibus et quosdam radices grandes
quercuum indies similiter fodit, succidit et asportavit ad dampnum
dpmini. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eum.
Postea venit predictus Willelmus de Percy et inde allocutus dicit quod
ipse nichil fecit contra allocacionem in instanti itinere sibi factam et
hoc petit quod inquiratur per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo
inquiratur per eosdem. Qui scilicet viridariif et regardatores ad hoc
jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod idem Willelmus cepit tres
carrectatas bosci de grandis [? grandibus] ramis et stipidibus et radicibus
quercuum contra formam allocacionis sibi facte. Ideo idem Willelmus
committitur prisone et forestaria predicta capiatur in manum domini.
Postea venit predictus Willelmus et peciit quod possit admitti ad finem
faciendum cum domino Comite in hac parte et pro forestaria sua reha-
benda et admittitur per finem xiijs iiijd prout patet in rotulis de finibus.

summoned, appears, pleads not guilty and claims an inquiry. The
inquiry is directed.

The jury present that whereas in the present Eyre the claims of the
foresters of fee in the Westward to have such browsewood as could be
cut from the stems by the billhooks of the under foresters and none
else was allowed, yet Sir William de Percehay, one of the foresters of
fee, has cut off huge branches of oak partly severed from the stems by
the wind, and some that were hanging down to the ground, and some
that were felled to the ground which he could not sever with the edge
of his billhook, and has dug up some huge roots of oaks and carried
all away. He is summoned, appears, and denies that he has done
aught in contravention to the claim as allowed. He asks for an
inquiry which is directed. The verderers and regarders say that he
took three cartloads of wood, composed of huge branches, stems, and
roots, in contravention of what he was allowed. He is sentenced to
be imprisoned and his office is seized in the Earl's hands. Afterwards,
at his request, he is permitted to compound for his offence and for the
restoration of his office at the sum of 13s 4A

* See later p. 98. t The omission of foresters may be intentional.

24 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

De transgressione viridis tarn infra dominica quam extra post
ultimam assisam in foresta ista presentant iidem ministri et jurati quod
Galfridus filius Juliane qui obiit cepit in Haia de Pikeryng infra
dominicum unam quercum viridem precii ijd. ldeo respondeat
domino Comiti Simon Sage de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Hugo filius Galfridi qui obiit cepit apud
Pikeryng spinas et corulos extra dominicum absque liberacione
forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Willelmus
Cut de Kirkeby tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius
Hugonis respondebit.

[264] Item presentant quod Johannes le Fotur qui obiit cepit ibidem
virgas et corulos extra dominicum absque waranto. Ideo ipse in
misericordia, unde Robertus Wygan tenens terrarum et tenementorum
que fuerunt ipsius Johannis respondebit.

Item presentant quod Johannes de Aslacby super Tese cepit in
haia predicta infra dominicum quatuor quercus precii iiijd, et dimissus
fuit per manucapdon >m usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit
nee prius se reddidit, ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis et
predictus Johannes respondebit domino de precio viridi predicti et
pro forisfactura ejusdem iiijs. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores
sui obierunt, ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Rogerus Lagan qui obiit cepit ibidem infra

Offences of vert within the demesne and without committed since
the last assize of the forest.

Geoffrey, son of Juliana, deceased, took in Pickering Hay [? Blansby
Park] within the demesne a green oak, value 2d. Simon Sage is respon-
sible for the value and for a fine of 2s.

Hugh, son of Geoffrey, deceased, took thorns and hazels outside
the demesne at Pickering without livery of the foresters or warrant.
His successor, William Cut, of Kirkby, is responsible.

John le Fotour, deceased, took poles and hazels outside the demesne
without warrant. His successor, Robert Wygan, is responsible.

John de Aislaby upon Tees took in Pickering Hay within the
demesne four oaks, value 4d. He was let out on bail but has not sur-
rendered, and does not appear. His bail are to be sentenced. To
judgment with his bail, and he is responsible for the value and for a
fine of 4s. Afterwards it appears that his bail are dead, so proceedings
are stayed against them.

Roger Lagan, deceased, took there within the demesne two oaks,
value 2d. His successor, John, his son and heir, is responsible.
Fine 2 s.

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dominicum duas quercus precii ijd, unde Johannes filius ejus et heres
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Rogeri respondebit
de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs.

Item present-ant quod Alanus de Sneynton qui obiit cepit ibidem
extra dominicum unam quercum absque liberacione forestariorum sive
waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Margareta filia ejus et heres
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Alani respondebit.

Item presentant quod Thomas vicarius ecclesie de Thornton qui
obiit cepit infra dominicum unam viridem quercum precii ob., unde
Johannes de Chymyne tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
Willelmi de la Chymyne manucaptoris predicti Thome respondebit de
precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjd.

Item presentant quod Johannes filius Ade prepositi de Pikeryng qui
obiit cepit in Haia predicta infra dominicum unam quercum precii ijd,
unde Galfridus et Emma filii ejusdem Johannis tenentes terrarum et
tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Johannis respondebunt de precio
viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Willelmus filius Hugonis de Sneynton qui
obiit cepit ibidem infra dominicum unam viridem quercum precii ob.,
unde Willelmus de Persay miles, Adam de Haukesgarth, Galfridus
Spayne et Willelmus tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
Rogeri de Wrelton manucaptoris predicti Willelmi filii Hugonis
respondebunt de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjd.

Item presentant quod Willelmus Perceval qui obiit cepit ibidem
infra dominicum unam viridem quercum precii ijd, unde Agnes que
fuit uxor Thome filii Willelmi Perceval tenens terrarum et tenemen-

William de Snainton, deceased, took there without the demesne an
oak without livery of the foresters or warrant. Margaret, his daughter
and heiress, is responsible.

Thomas Vicar, of Thornton, deceased, took within the demesne a
green oak, value id. John de Chimyne, successor to William de la
Chymyne, one of his bail, is responsible. Fine 6d.

John, son of Adam, reeve of Pickering, deceased, took an oak within
the demesne in the Hay, value 2d. His children and successors,
Geoffrey and Emma, are responsible. Fine 2s.

William, son of Hugh de Snainton, deceased, took there within the
demesne a green oak, value -|d. Sir William de Percehay, Adam de
Hawsker, Geoffrey Spayne, and William, successors to Roger de
Wrelton, one of his bail, are responsible. Fine 6d.

William Perceval, deceased, took there within the demesne a green
oak, value 2d. Agnes, widow of Thomas, his son and successor, is
responsible. Fine 2s.

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torum que fuerunt ipsius Willelmi respondebit de precio viridi predicti
et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Willelmus de Dogelby qui obiit cepit ibidem
infra dominicum unam quercum viridem precii jd, unde Willelmus le
Barker de Dolgelby tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
ipsius Willelmi respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem xijd.

Item presentant quod Thomas del Hunthous qui obiit cepit in Haia
de Pikering xl virides querculos precii vjs jd, unde Nicholaus Alius et
heres ipsius Thome tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
ipsius Thome respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem iij li. xiijs.

[264b] Item presentant quod Ricardus atte Uphall qui obiit cepit
ibidem extra dominicum unam viridem quercum absque liberacione
forestariorum sive waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Ricardus
del Uphall tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Ricardi
atte Uphall respondebit.

Item presentant quod Petrus Walnot qui obiit cepit ramunculos
quercuum extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum sive
waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Alexander de Bergh tenens
terrarum que fuerunt Bernardi de Bergh nuper unius viridariorum et
manucaptoris* ipsius Petri et Willelmus Latymer tenens terrarum et
tenementorum que fuerunt Roberti del Clif nuper alterius viridariorum
et manucaptoris ejusdem Petri respondebunt.

Item presentant quod Thomas Colyer qui obiit cepit ibidem extra

William de Duggleby, deceased, took there within the demesne a
green oak, value id. William, the tanner of Duggleby, his successor,
is responsible. Fine is.

Thomas del Hunt House, deceased, took in Pickering Hay forty
green oak saplings, value 6s id. His successor, Nicholas, his son and
heir, is responsible. Fine ^3 13s od.

Richard atte Uphall, deceased, took there without the demesne a
green oak without livery of the foresters or warrant. His successor,
Richard del Uphall, is responsible.

Peter Walnut, deceased, took some small oak branches without the
demesne without livery of the foresters or warrant. Alexander de
Bergh, successor to Bernard de Bergh, and William Latymer, successor
to Robert del Cliffe, late verderers and bail for Peter, are responsible.

Thomas Collyer, deceased, took there without the demesne a green

• Manucaptor presents some difficulty. Apparently this offender and others had
been already fined, and the verderers or their successors are called to answer for the
fines.

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dominicum unam viridem quercum absque liberacione forestariorum
sive waranto, unde iidera tenentes eorundem viridariorum responde-
bunt.

Item presentant quod Robertus Tan de Ellerburn qui obiit cepit in
Haia de Scalby viij virides quercus infra dominicum precii viijd, unde
iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondebunt de precio viridi
predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem viijs.

Item presentant quod Austinus Crote qui obiit cepit infra dominicum
sex virides quercus precii vjd, unde iidem tenentes eorundum viri-
dariorum respondebunt de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem vjs.

Item presentant quod Willelmus Alius Beatricis qui obiit cepit
ibidem vj virides quercus infra dominicum precii vjd, unde iidem
tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondebunt de precio viridi predicti
et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjs.

Item presentant quod Stut de Ellerburn qui obiit cepit ibidem extra
dominicum unam viridem quercum absque liberacione forestariorum
sive waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia, unde iidem tenentes eorundem
viridariorum respondebunt.

Item presentant quod Austinus prepositus qui obiit cepit ibidem
infra dominicum unam viridem quercum precii jd, unde iidem tenentes
eorundem viridariorum respondebunt de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem xijd.

Item presentant quod Stephanus Alius Alani qui obiit cepit ibidem
extra dominicum unam viridem quercum sine liberacione forestariorum

oak without livery of the foresters or warrant. The same persons
responsible.

Robert Tan, of Ellerburn, deceased, took eight green oaks within
the demesne in Scalby Hay, value 8d. The same persons responsible.
Fine 8s.

Austin Crote, deceased, took within the demesne six green oaks,
value 6d. The same persons responsible. Fine 6s.

William, son of Beatrice, deceased, took there* six green oaks,
value 6d. The same persons responsible. Fine 6s.

Stut of Ellerburn, deceased, took there without the demesne a
green oak without livery of the foresters or warrant. The same
persons responsible.

Austin the reeve, deceased, took there within the demesne a green
oak, value id. The same persons responsible. Fine Is.

Stephen son of Alan, deceased, took there without the demesne a

* ? In Scalby Hay.

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sive waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia, unde iidem tenentes eorundem
viridariorum respondebunt.

Item presentant quod Johannes Gentil qui obiit cepit in Gundale
infra dominicum unam viridem quercum precii jd unde iidem tenentes
eorundem viridariorum respondebunt de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem xijd.

Item presentant quod Willelmus Alius Haket qui obiit cepit ibidem
infra dominicum unam viridem quercum precii jd, unde iidem tenentes
eorundem viridariorum respondebunt de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem xijd.

Item presentant quod Robertus de Hampton persona ecclesie de
Midelton cepit tres virides quercus per diversas vices subtus Cropton
Castel, et idem persona cepit tercia vice ibidem unam viridem quercum
extra dominicum domini absque liberacione forestariorum sive waranto,
ideo ipse in misericordia.

Item presentant quod Prior de Malton cepit viridem boscum de spina
et corulis in [265] Aleyntoftes infra dominicum precii xxs, et cariavit
usque Scardeburgh pro allece suo desiccando, qui quidem Prior a
tempore illo inventus non fuit infra limites istius foreste, tamen modo
venit coram Justiciariis et super hoc convictus respondebit domino
Comiti pro precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura cs.

Item presentant quod Robertus le Lyttester cepit unam viridem
querculam et spinas et corulos crescentia in dominicis domini de
Pikeryng, precii viridi ijd, et dimissus fuit per manucapcionem usque ad

green oak without livery of the foresters or warrant. The same
persons responsible.

John Gentle, deceased, took in Gundale within the demesne a green
oak, value id. The same persons responsible. Fine is.

William, son of Hacket, deceased, took there within the demesne a
green oak, value id. The same persons responsible. Fine is.

Robert de Hampton, Rector of Middleton, took at different times
three green oaks below Cropton Castle, and on a third occasion took
there a green oak, without the demesne, without livery of the foresters
or warrant. In mercy.

The Prior of Malton took green hue of thorn and hazels in Allan-
tofts within the demesne, value jQi, and carried it to Scarborough for
kippering his herrings. The Prior has never since then been found
within the boundaries of the forest, but he appears, and being con-
victed is responsible for the value and a fine of £5.

Robert the Dyer took a green oak sapling, thorns, and hazels grow-
ing in the Earl's demesnes at Pickering, value zd. He was let out on
bail, but has not surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with

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istam assisam qui modo non venit nee prius &c, ideo ad judicium de
manucaptoribus suis, et predictus Robertus respondeat de precio viridi
predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs. Postea testatur quod manu-
captores sui obierunt, ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Willelmus Godyer de Brokesay cepit unam
viridem quercum in Legedon [? Langedon] versus orientem infra
dominicum precii vjd et dimissus fuit per manucapcionem usque ad
istam assisam, qui modo non venit nee prius se reddidit, ideo ad
judicium de manucaptoribus suis, et predictus Robertus [? Willelmus]
respondeat domino de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem
vjs. Postea manucaptores predicti finem fecerunt prout alibi patet.

Item presentant quod Robertus Boulot cepit unam viridem quercum
ibidem infra dominicum precii ijd et dimissus fuit per manucapcionem
usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit nee prius se reddidit, ideo
ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis, et predictus Robertus respondeat
domino de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs. Postea
testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt, ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Thomas Ulf cepit duas virides quercus ibidem
infra dominicum precii vjd et dimissus fuit per manucapcionem usque
ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit nee prius se reddidit, ideo ad
judicium de manucaptoribus suis, et predictus Thomas respondeat
domino de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjs.
Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt, ideo nichil
ulterius de eis.

his bail. He is responsible for the value and a fine of 2s. Afterwards
it appears that his bail are dead, so proceedings against them are
stayed.

William Godyer, of Broxa, took a green oak in Langdale East
within the demesne, value 6d, and was let out on bail. He has not
surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and he
is responsible for the value and a fine of 6s. Afterwards his bail com-
pounded, as appears elsewhere.

Robert Bowlot took a green oak there within the demesne, value
2d, and was let out on bail. He has not surrendered and does not
appear. To judgment with his bail, and he is responsible for the
value and a fine of 2s. Afterwards it appears that his bail are dead, so
proceedings against them are stayed.

Thomas Ulf took two green oaks there within the demesne, value
6d, and was let out on bail. He has not surrendered and does not
appear. To judgment with his bail, and he is responsible for the value
and a fine of 6s. Afterwards it appears that his bail are dead, so pro-
ceedings against them are stayed.

30 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod Thomas Cheseman de Gotheland cepit unam
viridem quercum in Gotheland infra dominicum precii ijd, et dimissus
fuit per manucapcionem usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit
nee prius se reddidit, ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis, et
predictus Thomas respondeat domino de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem ijs. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui
obierunt, ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Rogerus filius Nicholai cepit unam viridem
quercum in Gundale infra dominicum precii iijd, et dimissus fuit per
manucapcionem usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit nee prius
se reddidit, ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis, et predictus
Rogerus respondeat domino de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem iijs. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt,
ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Elias Cokerel cepit duas virides quercus in
Cropton extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum sive
waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia.

Item presentant quod idem Elias cepit ibidem tres virides quercus
extra dominicum, et Ricardus filius Johannis de Hoton cepit unam
robram ibidem absque liberacione forestariorum sive waranto, ideo
ipsi in misericordia.

[265b] Item presentatum est quod Abbas de Whiteby cepit unam
viridem quercum in Gotheland infra dominicum precii iijd, et dimissus
fuit per manucapcionem usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit
nee prius se reddidit, ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis, et

Thomas Cheseman, of Goathland, took a green oak in Goathland
within the demesne, value 2d, and was let out on bail. He has not
surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and he
is responsible for the value and a fine of 2s. Afterwards it appears
that his bail are dead, so proceedings against them are stayed.

Roger, son of Nicholas, took a green oak in Gundale within the
demesne, value 3d, and was let out on bail. He has not surrendered
and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and he is responsible
for the value and a fine of 3s. Afterwards it appears that his bail are
dead, so proceedings against them are stayed.

Elias Cokerel took two green oaks in Cropton without the demesne,
without livery of the foresters or warrant. In mercy.

He also took three green oaks there without the demesne, and
Richard, son of John de Hutton, took an oak there without livery of
the foresters or warrant. In mercy.

The Abbot of Whitby took a green oak in Goathland within the
demesne, value 3d, and was let out on bail. He has not surrendered

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predictus Abbas respondeat domino de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem iijs. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui
obierunt, ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Galfridus Carpentarius de Cropton cepit unam
viridem quercum subtus Cropton Castel extra dominicum absque
liberacione forestariorum sive waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia.

Item presentant quod Johannes del Cote de Everle qui obiit cepit
unam viridem quercum in Haia de Scalby infra dominicum precii vjd.
Ideo respondeant heredes et tenentes terrarum et tenementorum ipsius
Johannis de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjs.

Item presentant quod Thomas Waternes qui obiit cepit sex virides
quercus et unum ramum ibidem infra dominicum precii iijd. Ideo
respondeant heredes et tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
ipsius Johannis [? Thome] de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem iijs.

Item presentant quod Johannes filius Roberti de Scalby cepit
quatuor cipplinges quercuum in Haia de Scalby infra dominicum
precii ijd, et dimissus fuit per manucapcionem usque ad assisam istam,
qui modo non venit nee prius se reddidit, ideo ad judicium de manu-
captoribus suis, et predictus Johannes respondeat domino de precio
viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs, set quia constabularius
qui nunc est cepit viride predictum, ideo respondeat ipse consta-
bularius de precio viridi predicti et predictus Johannes pro forisfactura
ejusdem videlicet ijs.

and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and he is respon-
sible for the value and a fine of 3s. Afterwards it appears that his bail
are dead, so proceedings against them are stayed.

Geoffrey Carpenter, of Cropton, took a green oak below Cropton
Castle, without the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant.
In mercy.

John del Cote, of Everley, deceased, took a green oak in Scalby
Hay within the demesne, value 6d. His heirs and successors are
responsible. Fine 6s.

Thomas Waternes, deceased, took six green oaks and one bough
there within the demesne, value 3d. His heirs and successors are
responsible. Fine 3s.

John, son of Robert de Scalby, took four oak saplings in Scalby
Hay within the demesne, value 2d, and was let out on bail. He has
not surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and
he is responsible for the value and a fine of 2s. But the present con-
stable is responsible for the value of the vert since he took the vert,
and John for the offence

32 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod Robertus Nukkes cepit unam viridem quer-
culam subtus Cropton Castel extra dominicum absque liberacione
forestariorum sive waranto, ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Alanus
Storour tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Roberti
respondeat.

Item presentant quod sex quercus extronate fuerunt in Depedale
Sprynges per defectum custodie Johannis de Shafaldon quondam
wodewardi de Ebreston, ideo ipse in misericordia, et respondeat
Robertus Pecche de Gotheland ejus manucaptor et tenens terrarum
et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Johannis.

Item presentant quod Elredus de Ellerburn qui obiit expeditavit
quandam viridem quercum infra dominicum precii vijd, unde Edmundus
de Hastyng tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Elredi
de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura respondeat vijs, et idem
Edmundus oneretur pro viridi predicto similiter capto in Haia
predicta vijd.

Item presentant quod Hugo vicarius ecclesie de Ebreston qui obiit
cepit unam viridem quercum extra dominicum absque liberacione
forestariorum sive waranto, tamen Johannes filius Galfridi et Johannes
de la Chymyne executores ejusdem respondeant domino de misericordia.

Item presentant quod Johannes prepositus de Pikering qui obiit
cepit duas virides quercus in Oskelunt infra dominicum precii vjd, ideo
respondeant Galfridus filius ejus et Galfridus atte Mare executores
testamenti predicti Johannis [266] de precio viridi predicti et pro foris-
factura ejusdem vjs.

Robert Nooks took a green oak below Cropton Castle without the
demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. Alan Storour, his
successor, is responsible.

Six oaks were torn up by the roots in Deepdale Springs through
lack of care on the part of John de Shafaldon, former woodward of
Ebberston. Robert Pecche, of Goathland, his successor and surety, is
responsible.

Elred of Ellerburn, deceased, carried off a green oak within the
demesne, value jd. His successor, Edmund de Hastings, is respon-
sible for its value, a fine of 7s, and also 7d, the value of vert likewise
taken in the Hay.

Hugh, Vicar of Ebberston, deceased, took a green oak without the
demesne without livery of the foresters or warrant. John, son of
Geoffrey, and John de la Chymyne, his executors, are responsible.

John the reeve of Pickering, deceased, took two green oaks in Oske-
lunt [? Askew], value 6d. His son, Geoffrey, and Geoffrey atte Mar,
his executors, are responsible. Fine 6s.

COUCHER BOOK. 33

Item presentant quod idem Johannes qui obiit cepit in Gotheland
quatuor quercus infra dominicum precii ijd, unde iidem Galfridus et
Galfridus pro precio viridi predicti respondeant et pro forisfactura
ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Will elm us Sharp de Aleyntoftes forestarius
de Aleyntoftes qui obiit prostravit quandam viridem quercum in
Aleyntoftes infra dominicum precii yjd, ideo respondeat domino
Johannes de Irton et Robertus de Wyern tenentes terrarum et tene-
mentorum que fuerunt Willelmi de Irton nuper viridarii del Estward
de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjs.

Item presentant quod Rogerus de Scalby qui obiit cepit quandam
viridem quercum in Haia de Scalby infra dominicum precii obolum,
unde iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum (terrarum et tenemen-
torum que fuerunt predicti Rogeri) respondeant de precio viridi
predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjd, ad quorum manus forisfactura
et precium predicta devenerunt.

Item presentant quod Juliana filia Laurencii, que obiit cepit unam
viridem quercum ibidem infra dominicum precii obolum, ideo iidem
tenentes eorundum viridariorum respondeant de precio viridi predicti
et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjd, ad quorum manus forisfactura et precium
devenerint.

Item presentant quod Matillis Hodles que obiit cepit unam viridem
quercum ibidem infra dominicum precii obolum, ideo respondeant
iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem vjd, ad quorum manus forisfactura et precium
devenerint.

He also took four oaks in Goathland within the demesne, value 2d.
The same persons responsible. Fine 2s.

William Sharp, of Allantofts, forester of Allantofts, deceased, felled
a green oak in Allantofts within the demesne, value 6d John de
Irton and Robert de Wyern, the successors to William de Irton, late
verderer of the East ward, are responsible. Fine 6s.

Roger de Scalby, deceased, took a green oak in Scalby Hay within
the demesne, value id. Fine 6d. The same persons responsible since
the money * came to their hands.

Juliana, daughter of Lawrence, deceased, took a green oak there
within the demesne, value |d. Fine 6d. The same persons respon-
sible for the same reason.

Matilda Hoodless, deceased, took a green oak there within the
demesne, value |d. Fine 6d. The same persons responsible for the
same reason.

* See note, p. 26, supra.

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34 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod Juliana Bernard que obiit cepit unam viridem
quercum ibidem infra dominicum precii obolum. Ideo iidem tenentes
eorundem viridariorum respondeant de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem vjd, ad quorum manus forisfactura et precium
predicta devenerint.

Item presentant quod Aldusa filia Willelmi Dobe que obiit cepit
virides ramos ibidem infra dominicum precii obolum. Ideo iidem
tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondeant de precio viridi predicti
et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjd, ad quorum manus forisfactura et
precium predicta devenerint.

Item presentant quod Adam filius Almoti de Egton cepit unam
viridem quercum in Wheledale infra dominicum precii iiijd et dimissus
fuit per manucaptores usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit
nee prius se reddidit. Ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis. Et
predictus Adam respondebit domino de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem iiijs. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui
obierunt. Ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Johannes Gentil de Aslacby qui obiit cepit
unam viridem quercum in Gundale infra dominicum precii jd, unde
Margareta uxor ejus et executrix testamenti ipsius Johannis respondebit
de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem xijd.

[266b] Item presentant quod Willelmus Shaketre qui obiit cepit
ibidem unam viridem quercum infra dominicum precii jd, unde
Henricus Hokerel tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius
Willelmi respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem xijd.

Juliana Bernard, deceased, took a green oak there within the demesne,
value |d. Fine 6d. The same persons responsible for the same reason.

Aldusa, daughter of William Dobb, deceased, took green boughs
there within the demesne, value fd. Fine 6d. The same persons
responsible for the same reason.

Adam, son of Almote, of Egton, took a green oak in Wheeldale
within the demesne, value 4d, and was let out on bail. He has not
surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and he
is responsible. Fine 4s. Afterwards it appears that his bail are dead,
therefore proceedings against them are stayed.

John Gentle, of Aislaby, deceased, took a green oak in Gundale
within the demesne, value id. Margaret, his wife and executrix, is
responsible. Fine is.

William Shaketree, deceased, took a green oak there within the
demesne, value id. His successor, Henry Hokerell, is responsible.
Fine is.

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Item presentant quod Robertus Alius Alexandri cepit xl summagia
viridis quercus in Haia de Scalby infra dominicum precii vs, et dimissus
fuit per manucaptores usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit
nee prius se reddidit. Ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis. Et
predictus Robertus respondebit domino de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem xls. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui
obierunt ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Alanus Beaufrount de Scardeburgh qui obiit
cepit duos stubbos viridis quercus in Haia predicta infra dominicum
precii vjd, unde tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius
Alani respondebit et pro forisfactura ejusdem vjs.

Item presentant quod Willelmus Wodeman qui obiit cepit unam
viridem quercum et spinas per summagia in Haia de Scalby infra
dominicum precii jd, unde Willelmus le Latymer et Alexander de
Bergh tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Bernardi de
Bergh nuper viridarii ejusdem warde respondeant et pro forisfactura
xijd, ad cujus manus devenerint.

Item presentant quod Ricardus Neucomen de Suthfeld qui obiit
cepit ramos quercuum, huciarum et cipplingorum in Haia de Scalby
infra dominicum precii ijd, unde iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum
[? ejusdem viridarii] respondeant et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Walterus Payn qui obiit cepit ramos quercuum,
huciarum et cipplingorum ibidem infra dominicum noctanter precii jd,

Robert, son of Alexander, took forty horseloads of green oak in
Scalby Hay within the demesne, value 5s, and was let out on bail.
He has not surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with his
bail and he is responsible. Fine 40s. Afterwards it appears that his
bail are dead. Stay of proceedings ordered.

Alan Beaufrount, of Scarborough, deceased, took two stubbs of
green oak in the Hay within the demesne, value 6d. Fine 6s. His
successor is responsible.

William Wodeman, deceased, took a green oak and several horse-
loads of thorns in Scalby Hay within the demesne, value id. William
le Latimer* and Alexander de Bergh, successors to Bernard de Bergh,
late verderer of that ward, are responsible for the value and a fine of
is, since the money came to their hands.

Richard Newcomen, of Suffield, deceased, took boughs of oak,
holly, and saplings in Scalby Hay within the demesne, value 2d. Fine
2s. The same persons responsible.

Walter Payn, deceased, by night took boughs of oak, holly, and

* This does not quite correspond with p. 26, supra.

36 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

unde iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondeant et pro foris-
factura ejusdem xijd.

Item presentant quod Alanus filius Alexandri de Neuby cepit ibidem
unam querculum infra dominicum precii obolum et dimissus fuit per
manucaptores usque ad assisam istam ; qui modo non venit nee prius se
reddidit. . Ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis et predictus
Alanus respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem
vjd. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt, ideo nicbil
ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Thomas Russel qui obiit cepit viridum in le
Cahevedes infra dominicum precii jd, unde iidem tenentes eorundem
viridariorum respondeant de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem xijd.

Item presentant quod Umfridus Tober qui obiit cepit undecim
quercus virides in Wheledale infra dominicum precii cujuslibet jd et ea
cariavit* cum uno plaustro et sex bobus que appreciantur videlicet
plaustrum ad vj denarios et sex boves ad xvjs, precii cujuslibet ijs viijd.
Unde tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Ricardi de
Skelton nuper Custodis istius foreste, ad cujus manus forisfacture
predicte devenerint respondeant et pro precio ejusdem viridi et
similiter pro forisfactura ejusdem xjs.

Item presentant quod Johannes de Lyndryk qui obiit cepit undecim
quercus virides in Wheledale infra dominicum precii cujuslibet jd et ea
cariavit cum uno plaustro et sex bobus que appreciantur videlicet

saplings there within the demesne, value id. Fine is. The same
persons responsible.

Alan, son of Alexander de Newby, took a young oak there within
the demesne, value |d, and was let out on bail. He has not sur-
rendered and does not appear. To judgment with his bail and he is
responsible. Fine 6d. Afterwards it appears that his bail are dead, so
proceedings against them are stayed.

Thomas Russell, deceased, took vert in the Caveheads within the
demesne, value id. Fine is. The same successors to the verderers
responsible.

Humphrey Tober, deceased, took eleven green oaks in Wheeldale
within the demesne, value id each, and carried them away in a waggon
drawn by six oxen. The waggon is valued at 6d, each ox at 2s 8d —
i.e., the six at 16s. Fine ns. Richard de Skelton, formerly keeper of
the forest, received the money, and his successors are responsible.

John de Lindrick, deceased, took eleven green oaks in Wheeldale
within the demesne, value id each, and carried them away in a waggon
* This seems to show that the oaks could not have been of any great size.

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plaustrum ad vjd et boves ad xxs, precii cujuslibet [267] iijs iiijd, unde
iidem tenentes ejusdem custodie [? custodis] ad quorum manus foris-
facture devenerint et pro precio ejusdem respondeant et similiter pro
forisfactura ejusdem xjs.

Item presentant quod Alicia Sedman que obiit cepit undecim
quercus virides in Wheledale infra dominicum precii cujuslibet jd et ea
cariavit cum uno plaustro et vj bobus, que appreciantur videlicet
plaustrum ad vjd et boves ad xviijs, precii cujuslibet [267] iijs. Unde
iidem tenentes ejusdem custodie [? custodis] respondeant, ad cujus
manus predicte forisfacture devenerint et pro precio viridi predicti
et pro forisfactura ejusdem xjs.

Item presentant quod Thomas del Hunthous qui obiit cepit ibidem
sex virides quercus infra dominicum precii cujuslibet vjd, unde
Nicholaus del Hunthous Alius et heres ejus, tenens terrarum et tene-
mentorum que fuerunt ipsius Thome respondeat de precio viridi
predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem xxvjs.*

Item presentant quod Thomas de Werdale cepit unam viridem
quercum in bosco de Roston et Wicham extra dominicum absque
liberacione forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia et
predicti tenentes eorundem viridariorurn inde respondeant etc.

Item presentant quod Simon nuper serviens Prioris de Bridlyngton
qui obiit et Willelmus filius Margerie prostrator bosci et Reginaldus de
Scalby cariator prostrarunt unam viridem quercum noctanter in Foul-
drawn by six oxen. The waggon is valued at 6d, and the oxen at £1
— i.e., 3s 4d each. Fine 11s. The same persons responsible.

Alice Sedman, deceased, took eleven green oaks in Wheeldale
within the demesne, value id each, and carried them away in a waggon
drawn by six oxen. The waggon is valued at 6d, and the oxen at 18s
— i.e., 3s each. Fine 11s. The same persons responsible.

Thomas del Hunthouse, deceased, took six green oaks there within
the demesne, value 6d each. His successor, Nicholas del Hunthouse,
his son and heir, is responsible. Fine £1 6s.

Thomas de Weardale took a green oak in the wood of Ruston and
Wykeham without the demesne without livery of the foresters or
warrant. The successors f of the verderers are responsible.

Simon, late servant to the Prior of Bridlington, deceased, William,
son of Majorie, woodcutter, and Reginald de Scalby, carrier, felled,
for the use of the Prior, a green oak by night in Fullwood within the

* This fine is not twelve-fold. The margin gives as the total xxvjs vjd, which is
not correct.

t Representatives, although now generally confined to personal property, perhaps
expresses the idea best.

38 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

wod infra dominicum precii ijd ad opus dicti Prions, et illam quercum
in cariando cum plaustro precii xld et iiijor bobus in eodem junctis,
precii ij marcas, capti fuerunt et liberati eidem Priori qui jam obiit ad
respondendum nunc inde etc tanquam de forisfactis. Ideo Prior qui
nunc est inde respondebit et similiter de precio viridi predicti et pro
forisfactura ejusdem ijs. Et predicti Wiilelmus et Reginaldus dimissi
fuerunt per manucaptores usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non
veniunt hec prius se reddiderunt. Ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus
suis. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt, ideo nichil
ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod idem Simon nuper serviens ejusdem Prions
cepit unam viridem quercum in Haia de Scalby infra dominicum
precii ijs ad opus dicti Prioris. Ideo respondebit Prior qui nunc est
de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem xxiiij5.

Item presentant quod Johannes Blank qui obiit cepit corticem unius
quercus in Daleby infra dominicum precii iiijd, quam Henricus Cokerel
abscidit et abduxit. Ideo idem Henricus qui superstes est respondebit
de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem iiijs.

Item presentant quod Petrus de Nevill qui obiit cepit unam viridem
quercum in Ohwerdale [?] infra dominicum precii ijd, unde Hugo filius
ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Petri
respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Radulphus Derlyng qui obiit cepit tres carec-
tatas maeremii in Sneynton extra dominicum absque liberacione fores-
demesne, value 2d. They were caught while carrying it away in a
waggon worth 4od,* drawn by four oxen worth £i 6s 8d, and were
handed over to the late Prior to be produced at this Eyre. The pre-
sent Prior is responsible, and in addition is fined 2s. William and
Reginald were let out on bail, but have not surrendered and do not
appear. To judgment with their bail. Afterwards it appears that
their bail are dead, therefore proceedings against them are stayed.

The same Simon took a green oak in Scalby Hay within the demesne
to the use of the Prior, value 2s. Fine 24s. The present Prior is
responsible.

John White, deceased, took the bark of an oak in Dalby within the
demesne, value 4d, which Henry Cokerell cut and carried away.
Henry Cokerell, who is surviving, is responsible. Fine 4s.

Peter de Nevill, deceased, took a green oak in Ohwerdale [?] within
the demesne, value 2d. Fine 2s. His successor, Hugh, his son and
heir, is responsible.

Ralph Darling, deceased, took three cartloads of timber without the
* The difference in value between this and the other waggons is worth notice.

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tariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia. Unde Robertus
Derlyng filius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt ipsius Radulphi respondebit

Item presentant quod Ricardus Choleman de Brumpton cepit duas
quercus in [267b] Troucedale extra dominicum absque liberacione
forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia.

Item presentant quod Rogerus Haldan qui obiit cepit duas quercus
in Depedale infra dominicum precii cujuslibet vjd, unde Nicholaus
filius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius
Rogeri respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem
xijs. Postea testatum est quod viridum predictum captum fuit in
communa sua. Ideo nichil de precio neque de forisfactura.

Item presentant quod Thomas Sturmy cepit unam viridem quercum
in Daleby infra dominicum precii iiijd et dimissus fuit per manucaptores
usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit nee prius se reddidit.
Ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis et predictus Thomas respon-
debit de precio viridi predicti et de foris factura ejusdem iiijs. Postea
testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt, ideo nichil ulterius
de eis.

Item presentant quod Philippus Gunneys qui obiit cepit iiij quercus
in Ebreston infra dominicum precii cujuslibet jd, unde Alanus Malkac
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Philippi re-
spondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem iiijs.

Item presentant quod Adam Prudhom qui obiit attraxit sibi quam-
plures quercus extra dominicum unde fecit bordos quos vendicioni

demesne in Snainton without livery of the foresters or warrant. His
successor, Robert Darling, his son and heir, is responsible.

Richard Cholman, of Brompton, took two oaks in Troutsdale with-
out the demesne without livery of the foresters or warrant. In mercy.

Roger Haldane, deceased, took two oaks in Deepdale within the
demesne, value 6d each. Fine 12s. His successor, Nicholas, his son
and heir, is responsible. Afterwards it appears that the vert was taken
as of common right, therefore proceedings are stayed.

Thomas Sturmy took a green oak in Dalby within the demesne,
value 4d, and was let out on bail. He has not surrendered and does
not appear. To judgment with his bail and he is responsible. Fine 4s.
Afterwards, as it appears that his bail are dead, proceedings against
them are stayed.

Philip Gunneys, deceased, took four oaks in Ebberston within the
demesne, value id each ; total, including fine, 4s 4d. His successor,
Alan Malcake, responsible.

Adam Prudhomme, deceased, appropriated several oaks without the

40 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

exposuit diversis hominibus istius foreste. Ideo ipse in misericordia
et tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondeant.

Item presentant quod Johannes de Wynburn qui obiit cepit iiij
quercus in Foulwode infra dominicum precii cujuslibet iiijd, unde
iidem tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Ricardi de
Skelton nuper Constabularii respondeant de precio viridi predicti et
pro forisfactura ejusdem iijs.*

Item presentant quod Prior de Malton cepit ix plaustrata alneti in
Aleyntoftes infra dominicum precii ixd et dimissus fuit per manu-
captores usque ad assisam istam. Qui modo venit coram Justiciariis
et super hoc convictus oneratur erga dominum de precio viridi predicti
et pro forisfactura ejusdem ixs.

Item presentant quod Robertus Cave cepit unam viridem quercum
in Gretheved extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum, sive
waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia (iijd).

Item presentant quod idem Robertus prostravit ix quercus in Haia
de Scalby extra dominicum noctanter absque liberacione forestariorum,
sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia (iijd).

Item presentant quod Bartholomeus filius Galfridi cepit xxj tingnos
[sic] quercuum in haia de Scalby noctanter precii xjd et dimissus fuit
per manucaptores usque ad assisam istam, qui modo non venit nee
prius se reddidit, ideo ad judicium de manucaptoribus suis et predictus

demesne, of which he made boards and exposed them for sale to
different men residing in the forest. He is in mercy, and the above-
mentioned successors to the verderers are responsible for 6d.

John de Winburn, deceased, took four oaks in Fullwood within the
demesne, value 4d each. The successors of the late constable,
Richard de Skelton, are responsible for the value and fine, in all 3s.

The Prior of Malton took nine waggon-loads of alder in Allantofts
within the demesne, value gd, and was let out on bail. He now
appears, is convicted, and charged with payment to the Earl of the
value and a fine of 9s.

Robert Cave took a green oak in Greathead without the demesne
without livery of the foresters or warrant. He is in mercy (3d).

He also felled nine oaks in Scalby Hay without the demesne by
night without livery of the foresters or warrant. In mercy (3d).

Bartholomew, the son of Geoffrey, took twenty-one oak shingles [?]
in Scalby Hay by night, value nd ; he was let out on bail but has not
surrendered and does not appear. To judgment with his bail, and he

* The note in the margin has iijs iijd. It is not impossible that two entries are
here mixed up in one.

COUCHER BOOK. 41

Bartholomeus respondeat de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem xjs. Postea testatum est quod manucaptores sui obierunt ;
ideo nichil ulterius de eis.

Item presentant quod Willelmus de Yeland qui obiit cepit unam
viridem quercum in bosco de Kynthorp extra dominicum absque
liberacione forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia,
unde Katerina de Yeland tenens terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt ipsius Willelmi respondeat.

Item presentant quod Robertus del Clif qui obiit cepit unam viridem
quercum ibidem extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum sive
waranto. Ideo ipse in [268] misericordia, unde Willelmus Latymer
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Roberti
respondeat.

Item presentant quod domina Beatrix* de Farmanby que obiit cepit
unam viridem quercum extra dominicum absque liberacione foresta-
riorum sive waranto ; ideo ipsa in misericordia, unde Willelmus
Hastyng tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Beatricis
respondeat.

Item presentant quod Alexander de Wandesdale qui obiit cepit
unam viridem quercum in Langwathsid infra dominicum precii ijd,
unde Alicia filia ejus tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
ipsius Alexandri respondebit de precio viridi predicti et pro forisfactura
ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod Nicholaus de Hastyng qui obiit cepit unam
viridem quercum in Crosclif extra dominicum absque liberacione

is responsible for the value and a fine of 11s. Afterwards, as it
appears that his bail are dead, proceedings against them are stayed.

William de Yeland, deceased, took a green oak in Kingthorpe wood
without the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. His
successor, Catherine de Yeland, is responsible.

Robert del Clif, deceased, took a green oak there without the
demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. His successor,
William Latimer, is responsible.

The Lady Beatrice of Farmandby, deceased, took a green oak
without the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. Her
successor, William Hastings, is responsible.

Alexander de Wandesdale, deceased, took a green oak in Langwath
side within the demesne, value 2d ; fine 2s. His daughter and successor,
Alice, is responsible.

Nicholas de Hastings, deceased, took a green oak in Crosscliffe

* i.e., de Hastinges.

42 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Radulphus
de Hastyng tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius
Nicholai respondebit.

Item presentant quod Ivo Alius Petronille qui obiit cepit unam
viridem quercum extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum
sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia, unde iidem Alexander de
Bergh et Willelmus de Latymer viridarii respondebunt.

Item presentant quod Bartholomeus Carpentarius qui obiit cepit
unam viridem quercum in Crosclif extra dominicum precii ijd, unde
iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondebunt de precio viridi
predicti et pro forisfactura ejusdem ijs.

Item presentant quod persona de Brumpton qui obiit prostravit duas
virides quercus extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum sive
waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia, unde iidem tenentes eorundem
viridariorum respondebunt.

Item presentant quod Preceptor de Foukebrigg prostravit et cariavit
iiij virides quercus in mense defenso. Ideo ipse in misericordia, de
cujus misericordia Prior Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in
Anglia respondebit.

Item presentant quod Petrus de Nevill qui obiit cepit per duas vices
circa octo quercus noctanter in bosco de Aton extra dominicum absque
liberacione forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia,
unde iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondebunt.

without the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. His
successor, Ralph de Hastings, is responsible.

Ivo, son of Parnell, deceased, took a green oak without the
demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. The verderers,
Alexander de Bergh and William de Latimer, are responsible.

Bartholomew the carpenter, deceased, took a green oak in Crosscliffe
without the demesne, value 2d ; fine 2s. The same successors of the
verderers are responsible.

The Rector of Brompton, deceased, felled two green oaks without
the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. The same
persons responsible.

The Preceptor of Foulbridge felled and carried away four green
oaks in fence month. The Prior of the Hospital of St. John is
responsible.

Peter de Nevill, deceased, on two occasions took about eight oaks
by night in Ayton Wood without the demesne, without livery of the
foresters or warrant. The same successors to the verderers are
responsible.

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Item presentant quod Johannes Kyng prepositus Johannis de
Drokerford cepit quinque quercus in Sandale et Eskdale ad opus
domini sui de dono Ricardi de Shelton nuper custodis. Ideo onerentur
inde tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt predicti Ricardi.

Item presentant quod Henricus de Sandesby qui obiit cepit quatuor
quercus in Sneynton extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum
sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia unde iidem tenentes eorundem
viridariorum respondebunt.

Item presentant quod Johannes Forestarius de Brumpton qui obiit
cepit unam viridem quercum in Troucedale extra dominicum sine
waranto, Ideo ipse in misericordia, unde Thomas Alius ejus et heres,
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Johannis respon-
deat.

Item presentant quod Galfridus Carpentarius cepit unam viridem
quercum subtus Cropton Castel extra dominicum absque liberacione
forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo ipse in misericordia etc.

[268b] Item presentant quod Engelramus de Boynton receptavit tres
virides quercus quas Nicholaus del Hil cepit ad opus suum in Sneynton
extra dominicum absque liberacione forestariorum sive waranto. Ideo
ipse in misericordia, unde Walterus de Beynton filius ejus et heres,
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Engelrami respon-
deat.

John King, reeve to John de Drokenford,* took five oaks in Sandale
and Eskdale, to his master's use of the gift of Richard de Skelton, late
keeper. The latter's successors are to be charged.

Henry de Sandesby, deceased, took four oaks in Snainton without
the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. The same
successors of the verderers are responsible.

John, forester of Brompton, deceased, took a green oak in Trouts-
dale without the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant.
His successor, Thomas, his son and heir, is responsible.

Geoffrey the carpenter took a green oak beneath Cropton Castle
without the demesne, without livery of the foresters or warrant. In
mercy.

Ingram de Boynton received three green oaks which Nicholas del
Hill took to his use in Snainton, without livery of the foresters or
warrant. His successor, Walter de Bainton, his son and heir, is
responsible.

* He was possibly the Bishop of Bath and Wells of that name. The family,
assuming that Drokerford represents Drokensford, at this date appears to have been
settled in Essex, see Morant's "History of Essex."

44 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

De hiis qui ceperunt lepores in foresta cum Ieporarris et
portaverunt arcus et sagittas contra assisam in eadem.
Presentant iidem jurati quod Marmeducus de Acclom, Galfridus
frater ejus, Radulphus Wacelyn, Willelmus Wyles, Adam filius Thome
de Kynthorp, Willelmus Barban garcio Willelmi de Rosels, Hugo
Prudhome, Willelmus de Dales, Thomas, Willelmus et Robertus filii
ejusdem Willelmi, Michael de Rosels, Nicholaus Pykstan, Johannes
Morolf, Alexander Pyper, Nicholaus Hastyng, Henricus Chubbok,
Adam Spicer, Simon Roi, Petrus de Maulay junior, Hugo Sauvage,
Willelmus de Thornyngthays, Johannes de Egton de Danby, Johannes
Wyles, Ricardus Sauvage, Willelmus de Thornyngthways, Walterus
Turnur, Willelmus filius Thome filii Stephani, Johannes serviens
Johannis de Bordesden, Edmundus de Waver, Johannes Fychet,
Willelmus de Yeland senior, Thomas de Wyvill, Hugo de Hastyng,
Ricardus de Brocsay, Johannes de Humet, Adam de Elredby,
Willelmus Foughler garcio ejusdem, Johannes Clif, Johannes de Seton,
Gilbertus de Camera, Ambrosius de Camera, Rogerus venator domini
Edmundi de Maulay, Rogerus de Harwode, Willelmus Ruffait,
Rogerus Drye, Petrus garcio domini Roberti de Acclum, Johannes de
la Dale garcio Ambrosii de Camera, garcio uxoris Johannis de Seton,
Radulphus filius Rogeri de Cunsheved [? Conishead], Johannes Pale-
fridarius, Robertus de Acclum, Johannes filius Johannis de Dale,
Johannes Forester, Ricardus Wyles, Johannes Carter de Scarde-
burgh, Thomas et Johannes filii Thome Salter, Johannes Cruel,
Edmundus filius ejus, Willelmus de Overton, Jak Hare, Willelmus le
Parcour, Johannes filius Malkyn, Johannes de Danby, Johannes Stalker,
Willelmus filius Thome del Hunthous, Willelmus filius . Radulphi
Molendinarius, Thomas Sutor de Scardeburgh, Walterus Foune,
Ancelmus de Laycet, Thomas de Biston, Robertus de Percy, Johannes
garcio ejus, Ricardus de Sulby, Willelmus Fossard, Johannes de Cal-
veton, Willelmus Rome, Willelmus de Haverdale, Johannes filius
Willelmi de Maynhermer, Galfridus de Durem, Henricus de Fisshe-
burn, Petrus clericus domini Henrici de Percy, Martinus Palefridarius,
Thomas Gnatel, Willelmus filius Willelmi de Rosels, Johannes de

Those who caught hares in the forest and greyhounds and carried
bows and arrows in contravention of the assize of the forest.
The persons named were in the habit of catching hares in the forest
with greyhounds, in contravention of the assize of the forest to the
annoyance of the deer. They are summoned. Some appear and make
composition as appears in the estreat rolls, some are outlawed as appears
in the rolls of the proceedings, and some are dead.

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Mora, Rogerus de Fissheburn, Radulphus Pelliparius, Robertus
venator domini Henrici de Percy, Hugo Barker de Whiteby, Thomas
Bene de Rysewarp, Johannes filius Johannis de Hilderwell, Johannes
Wodecok, Johannes Kempe, Rogerus de Harwode, Adam Couper de
Scardeburgh, Rogerus garcio ejus, Robertus de Acclum, Prud Adam,
Colwite Wille [?], [269] Ricardus filius Juliane Drie, Willelmus de
Bradale [? Bladale], Rogerus Grymet, dominus Philippus de Lyndesay,
Johannes de Mora, Robertus venator Roberti de Dunfremlyn, Elias
forestarius domini Alexandri de Percy, Johannes Wode senior, Willelmus
filius Agnetis de Nafferton, Walterus Cissor de Semere, Rogerus filius
Willelmi de Topclif, Adam de Helperthorp, Robertus frater ejus,
Willelmus Lygard, Rogerus filius Alani Carter, Johannes Munkeman,
Thomas filius Thome Salter, Willelmus de Fyvele, Robertus filius
Henrici Lang, Nicholaus Pykstan, dominus Johannes de Hoton in
Clifland, Willelmus et Nicholaus fratres ejus, Johannes de Dent,
Willelmus filius Thome molendinarius de Dalton, Thomas filius Ricardi
molendinarius de eadem, Willelmus de Kyrkham wodewardus Nicholai
de Hastyng, Reginaldus Pipynheved bercarius ejusdem domini Nicholai,
Edmundus filius Roberti de Boynton, Walterus de Suardby, Thomas
de Dales, Rogerus filius Alani Carter et Willelmus frater ejus, Johannes
filius Rogeri atte Crosse, Thomas Salter, Reginaldus Lygard, Robertus
filius Roberti, Johannes filius Abbe de Rossedale, Willelmus Darell,
Johannes Darell, Ricardus Darell, Johannes de Spoford, James Jurdan
de Alen, Walterus venator Henrici de Percy, Ricardus de Stuppeton
[? Shipton] de Rasclif [Raskelf], Ricardus Carter, Willelmus frater
ejus, Willelmus filius Rogeri Carter junior, Willelmus de Bucton junior,
Robertus Kutte, Adam Leydy [? Levedy], Willelmus Hay, Willelmus
Page wodewardus de Aton, Walterus Faber, Johannes de Gosnarch,
Thomas wodewardus de Staynton, Stephanus filius Ricardi de Eske-
dale, Simon filius Ricardi del Wodde, Robertus del Clos de Lycheryk,
Hugo filius Roberti del Wode, Ricardus del Richemound sutor de
Whiteby, Johannes filius Simonis del Hill, Robertus Patryk junior,
Ricardus de Morsum, Johannes Brun de Hakenesse, Willelmus de
Yeland, Walterus de Wyrkeshale, Willelmus Freman, Johannes Bier,
Willelmus de Mora, Robertus de Chiborn, Willelmus de Mora junior,
Johannes filius Henrici del Tunge, Robertus filius Ricardi de Westgil et
Johannes frater ejus, Walterus de Stafton, Thomas de Bossale, Willelmus
de Roston, Johannes filius Johannis le Wode molendinarius Alani de
Holme, Hugo de Aula de Whiteby, Thomas de Driffield, Robertus
Spynk, Johannes Tendebarn, Willelmus filius Willelmi Moy, Prestre
Johan, Thomas Wryel, Galfridus de Langedon, Johannes de Brygham,
Willelmus de la Chapel, Willelmus de Egton, Nicholaus Meynill,
Petrus de Maulay, Johannes Percy, Willelmus Wywyll, Robertus Col-

46 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

vill de Erniclif [Arncliffe], Robertus de Staynton, Willelmus de
Wylardby, Robertus Wymark, Willelmus Bedeman [? Wodemanl
Willelmus Archer, Alanus Pecche junior, Willelmus Alius domini
Alexandri de Percy, Robertus de Seton, Johannes de Stokesle,
Robertus Balde, Willelmus de Eston, Willelmus Touchepryk, Willelmus
de Hagerston, Willelmus de Brokton, Thomas de la Dale, Robertus
Pecche, Willelmus User [Usher], Willelmus Parcour de Mulgreve,
Johannes Redheved, Willelmus Wyles, Robertus de Lelum [Lealholm]
junior, Adam de Lounesdale, Willelmus cocus Thome de Maulay,
Rogerus de Hull, Stephanus Alius Ricardi de Eskedale, Johannes de
Landemot, Walterus Daysum, Ricardus Taillour de Whiteby, Johannes
de Lelum, [269b] Johannes de Morsum, Willelmus Latymer, Radulphus
de Hastyng, Thomas de Metham, Johannes de Sutton, Willelmus de
Sancto Quintino, Johannes de Metham, Robertus de Saltmersh,
Edmundus de Boynton, Thomas Alius Thome de Bouelton, Johannes de
Malton consanguineus Johannis Moryn, Willelmus Toueton, Walterus
et Johannes de Dyngelby, Johannes Moryn, Rogerus Sturdy, Thomas
de Hiperswell, Robertus Alius Simonis, Johannes Styrkhird, Petrus
Alius Henrici, Petrus Maulay senior, venator Johannis de Yeland et
Radulphus frater ejus, Johannes Valiaunt capellanus, Simon Alius
Alani de Scardeburgh, Alexander de Bergh, Petrus de Rither persona
ecclesie de Kirkeby Misperton, dominus Willelmus Persay, Willelmus
Brus, Johannes de Pikeryng, Willelmus Alius Edmundi de Hastyng,
Hugo de Yeland, Hugo de Nevill, Radulphus Hastyng, dominus
Willelmus Playce, dominus Gilbertus de Aton, Willelmus Barde, Thomas
Bret, Willelmus Belle capellanus, Robertus Bruys, Edmundus de
Hastyng senior, Edmundus de Hastyng junior, Thomas del Clughton,
dominus Ricardus de Berughby rector ecclesie de Normanby et Simon
de Aton capiunt communiter lepores in foresta ista cum leporariis
contra assisam foreste ad nocumentum ferarum. Ideo preceptum est
vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos. Postea venerunt quidam eorum et
Anem fecerunt prout patet in extractis, et quidam eorum utlagantur ut
patet in rotulis processuum, et quidam eorum mortui sunt.

De capientibus volucres cum retibus et aliis ingeniis in foresta
predicta.
Presentant iidem jurati quod Henricus Foughler, Adam le Foughler
de Berugh, Adam le Foughler de Aton quod [sic] capiunt volucres

Those who caught birds in the forest with nets and other
contrivances.
The persons named catch birds in the forest with birdlime and other

COUCHER BOOK. 47

cum visco et aliis ingeniis in foresta contra assisam foreste. Ideo
preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faciat eos. Postea venerunt et
finem fecerunt prout patet in rotulis de extractis.

Capciones averiorum infra forestam istarn.

De averiis infra forestam istam tarn infra dominica quam mense
defenso forisfactis presentant iidem ministri et jurati quod unus staggus
Johannis Prest de Ebreston inventus fuit in foresta ista loco qui
vocatur Dalby super wardam factam et non agistatus qui captus fuit
tanquam forisfactus per assisam foreste et appreciatus ad xld et
retraditus eidem Johanni per plegium Ricardi de Dalby ad dictum
staggum habendum ad assisam istam ; qui modo non venit, ideo ipse
in misericordia, et nichilominus oneretur idem Johannes de precio
predicto erga dominum.

Item presentant quod quinque hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt Roberti
filii Lamberti inventi fuerunt infra coopertum in foresta ista tempore
pannagii et non agistati, [270] precii vs. Ideo idem Robertus respon-
deat.

Item presentant quod sex hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt Alani filii
Alani inventi fuerunt infra coopertum tempore pannagii et non agistati ;
precii vjs. Ideo idem Alanus respondebit.

contrivances in contravention of the assize of the forest. They are
summoned, appear and make composition as appears in the estreat
rolls.

Cattle taken in the forest.

As to cattle within the forest forfeited as well within the demesne as
in fence month, the Jury present that a young horse of John Prest of
Ebberton was found in Dalby unagisted on ward* being made, and
was taken as forfeited by the assize of the forest. It was valued at
3s 4d and restored to John, on his undertaking to produce it at the
present Eyre. His surety was Richard de Dalby. He fails to appear,
therefore he is in mercy, and is charged with payment to the lord of
the value.

Five hogs, the property of Robert, son of Lambert, were found
unagisted within the covert in time of pannage, value 5s. Robert is
responsible.

Six hogs, the property of Alan, the son of Alan, were found unagisted
within the covert in time of pannage.

* From page 85, later I conjecture that these words refer to an impounding by
the Earl's foresters as distinguished from the foresters of fee ; what, however, their
exact significance is, I cannot even conjecture. Another conjecture is, that it refers
to making drifts.

48 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod octo hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt Prions de
Bridlyngton inventi fuerunt infra coopertum tempore pannagii et non
agistati ; precii viijs. Ideo idem Prior respondebit.

Item presentant quod sex hoggi porcorum precii xijd et iiij porci
precii ijs qui fuerunt Magistri de Staynton inventi fuerunt infra cooper-
tum mense defenso non agislati. Ideo idem Magister respondebit.

Item presentant quod due sue [sic] que fuerunt Galfridi atte Halle et
Rogeri Salman invente fuerunt infra coopertum mense defenso non
agistate; precii ijs. Ideo iidem Galfridus et Rogerus respondebunt.

Item presentant quod quatuor porci qui fuerunt Godardi de Roston
inventi fuerunt infra coopertum mense defenso non agistati, precii ijs.
Ideo idem Godardus respondebit.

Item presentant quod octo hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt Johannis de
Stapelton qui obiit inventi fuerunt infra coopertum mense defenso non
agistati precii iiijs. Unde Juliana uxor ejus et Robertus Cockerell
executores testamenti predicti Johannis respondebunt.

Item presentant quod iiij porci precii viijs et tres hoggi precii iijs qui
fuerunt Nicholai filii Rogeri de Lokton inventi fuerunt in Staniheved
mense defenso non agistati. Ideo respondeat idem Nicholaus.

Item presentant quod sex porci qui fuerunt vicarii de Ellerburn qui
obiit inventi fuerunt in alneto juxta villain de Ellerburn mense defenso
precii ijs. Unde Robertus B-rus et Johannes filius Ade* executores
testamenti predicti vicarii respondebunt.

Item presentant quod sex porci qui fuerunt personef de Thornton
qui obiit inventi fuerunt infra coopertum mense defenso non agistati
precii ijs, unde Alexander de Bergh heres et executor testamenti
ejusdem persone respondebit.

Similar entries as to eight hogs, the property of the Prior of Brid-
lington, value 8s ; and in fence month, six hogs value is, and four pigs
value 2s, [? each], the property of the master of Stainton ; two sows value
2s, the property of Geoffrey atte Hall and Roger Salman ; four pigs value
2s, the property of Godard de Ruston ; eight hogs value 4s, the property
of John de Stapelton deceased, Juliana, his wife, and Robert Cockerell,
his executors, are responsible ; four pigs value 8s, and three hogs value
3s, the property of Nicholas, son of Roger of Lockton, found in Stoney
head ; six pigs value 2s, the property of the late vicar of Ellerburn, found
in an alderwood near the village ; Robert Bruce and John, son of Adam,
his executors, are responsible ; six pigs value 2s, the property of the
late Rector of Thornton, Alexander de Bergh, his heir and executor, is
responsible ; two pigs and two hogs, value altogether 6s, the property

* Probably the quondam reeve, see Vol. II., N.S., p. 14.
t This was William de Bergh, see Vol. II., N.S., p. 78.

COUCIIER BOOK. 49

Item presentant quod duo porci et duo hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt
Petri Ulf inventi fuerunt in bosco de Wicham mense defenso non
agistati, precii omnium vjs. Ideo idem Petrus respondebit.

Item presentant quod tres hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt Rogeri Wisk
inventi fuerunt in Haia de Scalby mense defenso non agistati precii iijs.
Ideo idem Rogerus respondebit.

Item presentant quod duo pullani qui fuerunt Ricardi Richeman
inventi fuerunt in Haia de Scalby mense defenso non agistati precii iijs.
Ideo idem Ricardus respondebit, etc.

Item presentant quod sex porci qui fuerunt Johannis Hert inventi
fuerunt [270b] in prato de Dalby mense defenso per wardam factam non
agistati precii xijs. Ideo idem Johannes respondebit.

Item presentant quod viij porci qui fuerunt Willelmi Latymer
inventi fuerunt ibidem mense defenso per wardam factam non agistati
precii xvjs. Ideo idem Willelmus respondebit.

Item presentant quod quinque porci qui fuerunt Alani prepositi qui
obiit inventi fuerunt in dominicis de Dalby tempore pannagii non
agistati precii cujuslibet* unde viridarii ejusdem warde respondebunt.

Item presentant quod 1. porci qui fuerunt Magistri Willelmi de
Pickeringf inventi fuerunt in dominicis de Semere tempore pannagii
non agistati precii cujuslibet xviijd, unde Willelmus Brus miles tenens
terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Magistri Willelmi
respondebit.

Item presentant quod Radulphus Gegge depastus fuit communam
de Ebreston cum xx bidentibus, ubi non habet communam. Ideo ipse
in misericordia.

Item presentant quod unus porcus precii ijs et tres hoggi porcorum
precii iijs qui fuerunt Johannis filii Gilberti inventi fuerunt in

of Peter Ulf, found in Wykeham wood ; three hogs value 3s, the property
of Roger Wiske, found in Scalby Hay ; two colts value 3s, the property
of Richard Richeman, in Scalby Hay ; six pigs value 1 2s, the property of
John Hart, in Dalby meadow ; and eight pigs value 16s, the property of
William Latimer ; in Dalby demesnes, five pigs, the property of Alan
the late reeve, for which the verderers are responsible ; in the demesne
lands of Seamer, fifty pigs worth Is 6d each, the property of Master
William de Pikering, for which his successor, Sir William Bruce, is
responsible.

Ralph Gegge pastured the common of Ebberston with twenty sheep,
where he has no right of common. He is in mercy.

The following animals were also found unagisted in fence month :
' in Allantofts a pig worth 2s, and three hogs worth 3s, the property of
* Not mentioned. t Dean of York, see Vol. II., N.S., p. 233.

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50 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Aleyntoftes mense defenso non agistati. Ideo idem Johannes
respondebit.

Item presentant quod unus porcus qui fuit Walteri de Burton
inventus fuit in Haia de Scalby mense defenso non agistatus precii xijd.
Ideo idem Walterus respondebit.

Item presentant quod iiij porci qui fuerunt Willelmi de Fulford
inventi fuerunt ibidem mense defenso non agistati precii viijs. Ideo
idem Willelmus respondebit.

Item presentant quod xl bidentes qui fuerunt Henrici de Bougheland
inventi fuerunt in Haia de Scalby mense defenso precii cujuslibet xijd.
Ideo idem Henricus respondebit.

Item presentant quod una sus que fuit Henrici Geryng inventa fuit
in Langedon mense defenso non agistata precii ijs. Ideo idem
Henricus respondebit.

Item presentant quod quinque porci qui fuerunt Alani Lille inventi
fuerunt in bosco de Wicham mense defenso non agistati precii xs et
retraditi fuerunt eidem Alano per plegium Galfridi Fabri et Thome de
Neuton ad dictos [? porcos] habendos ad assisam istam. Qui modo
non veniunt ideo ipsi in misericordia, et nichilominus oneretur idem
Alanus de precio predicto.

Item presentant quod viginti averia diversorum hominum de
Kynthorp inventa fuerunt in dominicis de Pickering, precii cujuslibet
iiijs. Unde villata de Kynthorp respondebit.

Item presentant quod decern stirk qui fuerunt Johannis de Rouceby
inventi fuerunt in Haia de Dalby per wardam factam et non agistati
qui capti fuerunt tanquam forisfacti per assisam foreste et appreciati
ad xxs et retraditi eidem Johanni per plegium Rogeri de Mannesherne
ad dictos stirk habendos ad assisam istam. Qui modo non venit,*
ideo ipse in misericordia et nichilominus oneretur idem Johannes de
precio predicto.

John, son of Gilbert ; in Scalby Hay a pig worth is, the property of
Walter de Burton, four pigs worth 8s, the property of William de
Fulford, and forty sheep worth is each, the property of Henry de
Bougheland ; in Langdale a sow worth 2s, the property of Henry
Gering; in Wykeham Wood five pigs worth ios, the property of Alan
Lille, which were restored to him on Geoffrey the smith and Thomas
de Newton being sureties for their production at the present Eyre,
which is not done ; in the demesne lands of Pickering twenty cattle
worth 4s apiece, the property of different men in Kingthorpe, the
township is responsible ; in Dalby Hay ten stirks worth £i, the pro-
perty of John de Roxby, restored on Roger de Mansergh being surety ;
* Roger was dead, see Vol. II., N.S., p. 241.

COUCHER BOOK. 5 I

[271] Item presentant quod unus porcus qui fuit predicti Johannis
de Rouceby inventus fuit in parco de Blandeby mense defenso non
agistatus precii ijs. Ideo idem Johannes respondebit.

Item presentant quod duo porci qui fuerunt Nicholai filii Ricardi qui
obiit inventi fuerunt in foresta mense defenso non agistati precii iiijs,
unde Johannes filius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenementorum
que fuerunt ipsius Nicholai respondebit.

Item presentant quod sex porcelli qui fuerunt Michaelis forestarii
capti fuerunt in parco de Blandeby mense defenso non agistati precii
iijs vjd, unde tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Ricardi
de Shelton [? Skelton] nuper custodis respondebunt.

Item presentant quod duo equi qui fuerunt Alani de Alverstan qui
obiit inventi fuerunt in parco de Blandeby per wardam factam sine
agistamento qui domino sunt forisfacti precii vs, unde iidem tenentes
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod duo equi precii xs qui fuerunt Radulphi
Bercarii qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam sine
agistamento qui domino sunt forisfacti, unde iidem tenentes responde-
bunt.

Item presentant quod unus equus precii xs qui fuit Ricardi de
Sivelyngton qui obiit inventus fuit ibidem per wardam factam sine
agistamento qui domino est forisfactus, unde iidem tenentes responde-
bunt.

Item presentant quod duo equi precii xs qui fuerunt Brus Erchebaud
qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam sine agistamento
qui domino sunt forisfacti, unde iidem tenentes respondebunt.

Item presentant quod duo equi precii xs qui fuerunt Willelmi
Fotyng qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam sine
agistamento qui modo sunt forisfacti, unde iidem tenentes terrarum et
tenementorum que fuerunt predicti Ricardi de Shelton nuper custodis
respondebunt etc.

in Blansby Park one pig worth 2s, the property of the same John de
Roxby ; in the forest two pigs worth 4s, the property of the late
Nicholas, son of Richard, his son and heir, John, is responsible; in
Blansby Park, for all which the successors of Richard de Skelton, the
late keeper, are responsible, six young pigs worth 3s 6d, the property
of Michael the forester, two horses worth 5s, the property of the late
Alan de Allerston, two horses worth 10s, the property of the late
Ralph the shepherd, one horse worth 10s, the property of the
late Richard de Sinnington, two horses worth 10s, the property of the
late Archibald Bruce, two horses worth 10s, the property of the late
William Fotyng, two horses worth 10s, the property of the late

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52 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod duo equi precii xs qui fuerunt Willelmi Jurour
qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam sine agistamento
qui domino sunt forisfacti, unde Ricardus Jurour filius ejus et heres
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Willelmi
respondebit.

Item presentant quod duo equi precii xs qui fuerunt Ingelrami le
forester qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam sine agista-
mento qui domino sunt forisfacti, unde tenentes terrarum et tenemen-
torum que fuerunt predicti Ricardi de Shelton nuper custodis
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod tres porci precii vjs qui fuerunt Nicholai filii
Ricardi qui obiit inventi fuerunt in parco de Blandeby per wardam
factam sine agistamento qui domino sunt forisfacti, unde Johannes
filius Walteri tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius
Nicholai respondebit.

Item presentant quod tres porci precii vjs qui fuerunt Thome de
Collom qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam sine agis-
tamento qui domino sunt forisfacti, unde Johannes de Dalton et
Johannes de Malton tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
ipsius Thome respondebunt.

[271b] Item presentant quod sex averia precii cujuslibet iiijs que
fuerunt Walteri filii Lucie qui obiit inventa fuerunt in Aleyntoftes per
wardam factam sine agistamento, unde Alexander de Bergh tenens
terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Walteri respondebit.

Item presentant quod septem bidentes precii cujuslibet xijd et duo
averia precii viijs qui fuerunt Rogeri de Harewode qui obiit inventi
fuerunt in Aleyntoftes per wardam factam sine agistamento, unde
Abbas de Whiteby respondebit.

Item presentant quod x bidentes precii cujuslibet xijd qui fuerunt
Ade le Stirkhird inventi fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam, unde idem
Adam respondebit.

William Jurour (for this Richard Jurour, his son and heir, is respon-
sible), two horses worth 10s, the property of the late Ingram the
forester. There were also found there three pigs worth 6s, the pro-
perty of Nicholas, the son of R ichard, for which his successor, John,
the son of Walter, is responsible ; three pigs worth 6s, the property of
Thomas de Collom, for which his successors, John de Dalton and John
de Malton, are responsible ; in Allantofts six cattle worth 4s apiece,
the property of Walter, the son of Lucy, for which Alexander de Bergh
is responsible ; seven sheep worth is apiece and two cattle worth 8s,
the property of the late Roger de Harwood, for which the Abbot of
Whitby is responsible ; ten sheep worth is apiece, the property of

COUCIIER BOOK. 53

Item presentant quod xvj boves precii cujuslibet vs qui fuerunt
Roberti filii Willelmi ad portam inventi fuerunt in Aleyntoftes per
wardam factam sine agistamento, unde Robertus Wyern tenens
terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Roberti Wyern nuper unius
viridarii et Johannes de Irton tenens terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt Willelmi [? de Irton] nuper alterius viridarii respondebunt.

Item presentant quod xvij bestie precii cujuslibet iiijs et vj porci
precii cujuslibet ijs inventi fuerunt in Langedon per wardam factam
unde tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Ricardi de
Shelton nuper custodis foreste respondebunt etc.

Item presentant quod xxiiij boves precii cujuslibet vs qui fuerunt
Willelmi de Everle qui obiit inventi fuerunt in prato de Dalby post
fenum abductum per wardam factam, unde Robertus Bercarius de
Ellerburn et Johannes Nebard plegii ipsius Willelmi respondebunt.

Item presentant quod duo boves precii cujuslibet iiijs qui fuerunt
Rogeri de Morpath qui obiit inventi fuerunt in dominicis domini per
wardam factam, uncle Willelmus Plays miles tenens terrarum et tene-
mentorum que fuerunt ipsius Rogeri respondebit.

Item presentant quod quinque porci precii xs qui fuerunt Laurencii
Forester qui obiit inventi fuerunt in parco de Blandeby tempore
pannagii non agistati unde David de Neuton filius ejus et heres tenens
terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Laurencii respondebit.

Item presentant quod viij porci precii cujuslibet ijs qui fuerunt
Godardi Forester qui obiit inventi fuerunt ibidem tempore pannagii
non agistati, unde iidem tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt Ricardi de Shelton nuper custodis respondebunt.

Adam the Stirkhird, and sixteen oxen worth 5s apiece, the'property of
Robert, son of William at the Gate, for which Robert de Wyern and
John de Irton respectively successors of the late verderers Robert de
Wyern and William de Irton, are responsible ; in Langdale seventeen
beasts worth 4s apiece and six pigs worth 2s apiece, for which the
successors of Richard de Skelton are responsible ; in Dalby Meadow
twenty-four oxen worth 4s apiece, the property of William de Everley,
for which his sureties, Robert Shepherd, of Ellerburn, and John
Nebard are responsible ; in the Earl's demesnes two oxen worth 4s
apiece, the property of the late Roger de Morpath, for which Sir
William Plays is responsible ; in Blansby Park five pigs worth 10s, the
property of the late Laurence the forester, for which his son and heir,
David de Newton,* is responsible, and eight pigs worth 2s apiece, the
property of the late Godard the forester, for which the successors of
Richard de Skelton are responsible; as also for six sheep found within
* He was also a forester, see Vol. II., N.S., pp. 53 and 148.

54 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod vj bidentes que fuerunt Matillidis Prat que
obiit invente fuerunt infra coopertum cum warda facta sine agistamento
precii cujuslibet xijd, unde iidem tenentes respondebunt.

Item presentant quod cc bidentes invente fuerunt in dominicis de
Langedon que devenerunt ad manus Ricardi de Shelton nuper
custodis istius foreste qui obiit, precii cujuslibet xijd, unde tenentes
terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Ricardi respondebunt.

Item presentant quod xxvij bidentes que fuerunt Petri de Sartrino
qui obiit invente fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam precii cujuslibet
xijd, unde Adam Alius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenementorum
que fuerunt ipsius Petri respondebit.

[272] Item presentant quod vj bidentes que fuerunt Willelmi filii
Willelmi filii Ivette de Aton qui obiit invente fuerunt ibidem per
wardam factam, precii vjs, unde tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt predicti Ricardi de Shelton nuper custodis respondebunt.

Item presentant quod lxxxvj boves matrices que fuerunt Roberti filii
Beatricis qui obiit invente fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam precii
cujuslibet xijd, unde iidem tenentes respondebunt.

Item presentant quod c bidentes que fuerunt Rogeri filii Johannis
de Selfhou qui obiit invente fuerunt in Foulwode per wardam factam
precii cs, unde iidem tenentes respondebunt.

Item presentant quod iiij bidentes que fuerunt Ade hominis Petri de
Sartrino qui obiit invente fuerunt in dominicis de Langedon per
wardam factam precii cujuslibet xijd, unde iidem tenentes respondebunt.

Item presentant quod quinquaginta bidentes que fuerunt Radulphi
Prest de Suthfeld invente fuerunt in Haia de Scalby per wardam
factam precii xs* unde iidem tenentes respondebunt.

the covert worth is apiece, the property of Matilda Prat, and 200
sheep worth is apiece, which were found in the demesne lands of
Dalby and came to the hands of Richard de Skelton.

There were found in the demesne lands of Dalby twenty-seven sheep
worth Is apiece, the property of the late Peter de Sarterye,f for which
his son and heir, Adam, is responsible, and six sheep worth 6s, the pro-
perty of William, the son of William, the son of Ivetta of Ayton deceased,
and eighty-six ewes worth Is apiece, the property of the late William,
son of Beatrice, for which the successors of Richard de Skelton are
responsible ; as also for 100 sheep worth ^5, found in Falwood, the
property of the late Roger, son of John of Silpho, four sheep worth Is
apiece, found in the demesnes of Langdale, the property of Adam, the
man of Peter de Sarterye, and fifty sheep worth 10s found in Scalby Hay,

* This, if correct, is one-fifth of what we should expect
t See Vol. II., N.S., p. 147'

COUCHER BOOK. 55

Item presentant quod quadraginta multonum que [sic] fuerunt pre-
ceptoris de Foukebrigg invente fuerunt infra dominicum de Dalby per
wardam factam precii xls, unde Prior Hospitalis Sancti Johannis
Jerusalem in Anglia respondebit.

Item presentant quod 1. bidentes villate de Calthorn invente fuerunt
in dominicis domini per wardam factam precii v11, unde villata predicta
de Calthorn respondebit de precio predicto.

Item presentant quod tres porci precii vjs et tres porcelli precii ix.d
qui fuerunt Margarete del Dales que obiit inventi fuerunt in dominicis
de Langedon per wardam factam, unde Johannes de Helmeswell
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Margarete
respondebit.

Item presentant quod vij hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt Ade le Rede
de Egton qui obiit inventi fuerunt in Aleyntoftes tempore pannagii sine
agistamento precii vijs, unde Ricardus le Rede filius ejus et heres
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Ade respondebit.

Item presentant quod iiij porci qui fuerunt Johannis de Brokeseye
qui obiit inventi fuerunt in Langedon per wardam factam precii viijs,
unde tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Roberti de Wyem
et Willelmi de Irton nuper viridariorum respondebunt.

Item presentant quod unum jumentum quod fuit Roberti servientis
domine de Salden qui obiit inventum fuit in Langedon per wardam
factam precii vs, unde iidem tenentes eorundem viridariorum respon-
debunt.

Item presentant quod unus equus qui fuit Radulphi Pycot qui obiit
inventus fuit in Langedon per wardam factam precii iiijs, unde iidem
tenentes eorundem viridariorum respondebunt.

Item presentant quod xx porci qui fuerunt Roberti ad ecclesiam de

the property of Ralph Prest of Suffield ; within the demesne of Dalby,
forty wethers worth 40s, the property of the Preceptor of Foulbridge,
for which the Prior of the Hospital of St. John is responsible ; in the
Earl's demesnes fifty sheep worth £,$, the property of the township of
Cawthorn ; in the demesnes of Langdale, three pigs worth 6s, and
three young pigs worth 9d, the property of the late Margaret del Dales,
for which John de Helmeswell is responsible ; in Allantofts, seven hogs
worth 7s, the property of the late Alan le Rede of Egton, for which
Richard le Rede, his son and heir, is responsible.

The successors of the former verderers are responsible for the
following, namely : in Langedale, four pigs worth 8s, the property
of the late John de Broxa, a mare worth 5s, the property of Robert, the
late servant of the Lady of Sawdon, a horse worth 4s, the property of
the late Ralph Pycot. There were found in the demesne of Langdale,

56 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Brunston [272b] qui obiit inventi fuerunt in dominicis de Langedon
tempore pannagii sine agistamento precii xls, unde Johannes Haylard
et Stephanus Lambson tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt
ipsius Roberti respondebunt.

Item presentant quod unus pullanus abductus fuit per Lille de Suth-
feld qui obiit inventus fuit in Haia de Scalby per wardam factam.
Ideo ipse in misericordia. Unde Nicholaus Lille films ejus et heres
tenens terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Lille respondebit.

Item presentant quod xxv bidentes que fuerunt Willelmi filii
Willelmi de Suthfeld qui obiit invente fuerunt in Haia de Scalby per
wardam factam precii cujuslibet xijd, unde iidem tenentes terrarum et
tenementorum que fuerunt predicti Ricardi de Shelton nuper custodis
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod iij bidentes que fuerunt Nalle atte Cote invente
fuerunt ibidem per wardam factam precii iijs, unde eadem Nalle respon-
debit.

Item presentant quod iij porci qui fuerunt Radulphi Frost qui obiit
inventi fuerunt ibidem mense defenso sine agistamento precii vjs, unde
tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Ricardi de Shelton
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod unus pullanus qui fuit Galfridi de Lith qui
obiit inventus fuit in Haia de Dalby per wardam factam precii xviijd,
unde Johanna que fuit uxor ejusdem Galfridi et executrix testamenti
ipsius Galfridi respondebit.

Item presentant quod unus pullanus qui fuit Willelmi Forestarii qui
obiit inventus fuit ibidem per wardam factam precii xviijd, unde
tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Ricardi de
Shelton nuper custodis respondebunt.

twenty pigs worth £2, the property of the late Robert at Church of
Burniston, for which John Haylard and Stephen Lambson are respon-
sible. A colt found in Scalby was carried off by Lille of Suffield, for
which Nicolas Lille, his son and heir, is responsible.

There were found in Scalby Hay twenty-five sheep worth is apiece,
the property of the late William, son of William of Suffield, for which
the successors of Richard de Skelton are responsible, three sheep worth
3s, the property of Nelly [?] at Cote, and three pigs worth 6s, the
property of the late Ralph Frost, for which the successors of Richard
de Skelton are responsible ; in Dalby Hay a colt worth is 6d, the
property of the late Geoffrey de Lith, for which Joan his widow and
executrix is responsible ; two colts each worth is 6d, one the property
of William the late forester, and the other of the late vicar of Ellerburn,
for which the successors of Richard de Skelton are responsible, and a

COUCHER BOOK. 57

Item presentant quod unus pullanus qui fuit vicarii de Ellerburn qui
obiit inventus fuit ibidem per wardam factam precii xviijd, unde iidem
tenentes respondebunt.

Item presentant quod unus pullanus qui fuit Roberti del Clyf qui
obiit inventus fuit ibidem per wardam factam precii xviijd, unde Ber-
nardus de Bergh et Willelmus Latymer nuper viridarii respondebunt.

Item presentant quod iiij porci qui fuerunt Galfridi filii Bartholomei
qui obiit inventi fuerunt in Langedon per wardam factam precii viijs,
unde Bartholomeus filius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenemen-
torum que fuerunt ipsius Galfridi respondebit.

Item presentant quod iij equi qui fuerunt Galfridi Hogherd de Mar-
desdon qui obiit inventi fuerunt in dominicis de Langedon per wardam
factam precii xs, unde Willelmus filius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et
tenementorum que fuerunt eorundem viridariorum respondebunt [sic].

Item presentant quod unus pullanus qui fuit Roberti de Killyngton
qui obiit inventus fuit in Haia de Scalby per wardam factam precii ijs,
unde Willelmus filius ejus et heres tenens terrarum et tenementorum
que fuerunt ipsius Roberti respondebit.

Item presentant quod una sus que fuit Adam Staumpes qui obiit
inventa fuit in dominicis de Langedon per wardam factam, unde
Robertus et Johannes [273] filii ejus et heredes* tenentes terrarum et
tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Alani [sic] respondebunt.

Item presentant quod duo equi qui fuerunt Hugonis de Heybourn
qui obiit inventi fuerunt infra dominicum per wardam factam precii xs,
unde Radulphus de Cloghton tenens terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt ipsius Hugonis respondebit.

Item presentant quod septem staggi qui fuerunt Prions de Malton
inventi fuerunt in Aleyntoftes per wardam factam precii xxiiijs, unde
idem Prior respondebit.

colt also worth is 6d, the property of the late Robert del Clif, for
which the late verderers, Bernard de Bergh and William Latimer are
responsible ; in Langdale, four pigs worth 8s, the property of Geoffrey,
son of Bartholomew, for which Bartholomew, his son and heir, is
responsible, and three horses worth 10s, the property of the late
Geoffrey Hogherd of Mardesdon in Scalby Hay ; a colt worth 2s, the
property of Robert de Killington, for which William, his son and heir, is
responsible ; in the demesnes of Langdale, a sow, the property of the
late Adam [? Alan] Stamps, for which his sons and heirs, Robert and John,
are responsible ; within the demesne, two horses worth 10s, the property
of the late Hugh de Hayburn, for which Ralph de Cloughton is respon-
sible ; in Allantofts, seven young horses worth £,\ 4s, the property of
* This is worthy of note as evidencing the custom of gavelkind.

58 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Item presentant quod novem porci qui fuerunt Prions de Bridlington
inventi fuerunt in Haia. de Scalby mense defenso sine agistamento
precii xviijs, unde idem Prior respondebit.

Item presentant quod c bidentes que fuerunt Alani de Billaclif qui
obiit inventi fuerunt in Haia de Scalby noctanter precii cs, unde iidem
tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt predicti Ricardi de
Shelton* respondebunt.

Item presentant quod duo porci qui fuerunt Prions de Bridlyngton
inventi fuerunt ibidem mense defenso sine agistamento, precii iiijs,
unde idem Prior respondebit.

Item presentant quod 1 bidentes qui fuerunt Nicholai filii Ricardi
Hert qui obiit inventi fuerunt in dominicis domini per wardam factam
precii xls, unde Ricardus Russel tenens terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt ipsius Nicholai respondebit.

Item presentant quod unus equus qui fuit Adam [? Alani] filii Ricardi
de Wrelton inventus fuit in dominicis de Dalby per wardam factam
precii xld. Ideo idem Alanus respondebit.

Item presentant quod quatuor porci precii viijs et sex hoggi precii vjs
qui fuerunt Magistri de Staynton infra coopertum inventi fuerunt mense
defenso sine agistamento, unde Prior Hospitalis sancti Johannis
Jerusalem in Anglia respondebit.

Item presentant quod unus equus qui fuit Galfridi Joperel qui obiit
inventus fuit in Aleyntoftes per wardam factam precii ijs unde tenentes
terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt Willelmi Leure nuper custodis
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod quatuor hoggi porcorum inventi fuerunt in

the Prior of Malton ; in Scalby Hay, nine pigs worth 18s, the property
of the Prior of Bridlington, ioo sheep worth £$, found at night, the
property of the late Alan de Billaclif, for which the successors of Richard
de Skelton are responsible, and two pigs worth 4s, the property of the
Prior of Bridlington ; in the Earl's demesne, fifty sheep worth £2, the
property of the late Nicholas, son of Richard Hart, for which Richard
Russell is responsible ; in the demesnes of Dalby, a horse worth 3s 4d,
the property of Alan, son of Richard de Wrelton ; within the covert
four pigs worth 8s, and six hogs worth 6s, the property of the Master
of Stainton, for which the Prior of the Knights Hospitallers is respon-
sible ; in Allantofts, a horse worth 2s, the property of the late Geoffrey
Joperell, for which the successors of William L'Eure, late keeper, are
responsible, as also for four hogs worth 2s, found in Scalby Hay ; in
Allantofts, five cattle worth jQi, the property of the late Thomas le

* He is called Shelton not Skelton in the appointment of him. Pat. Roll 28,
Ed. I., m. 8, to levy men for Scotch expedition.

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Haia de Scalby per wardam factam precii ijs, unde iidem tenentes
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod v averia que fuerunt Thome le Man qui obiit
inventa fuerunt in Aleyntoftes per wardam factam precii xxs, unde
tenentes terrarum et tenementorum que fuerunt ipsius Thome
respondebunt.

Item presentant quod vij porci qui fuerunt Roberti de Beverle qui
obiit inventi fuerunt infra coopertum mense defenso sine agistamento
precii vijs. unde Johannes Meaux* tenens terrarum et tenementorum
que fuerunt ipsius Roberti respondebit.

Item presentant quod v hoggi porcorum qui fuerunt predicti Roberti
qui obiit inventi fuerunt infra coopertum mense defenso sine agistamento
precii vs, unde idem Johannes tenens terrarum et tenementorum que
fuerunt ipsius Roberti respondebit.

Item presentant quod anno regni domini E. patris domini Regis nunc
quarto sex boves et due vacce que fuerunt persone de Lastingham
precii xxxs, et tres boves et unum stirk qui fuerunt Henrici le Wodeward
precii xjs viijd, et una [273b] bovetta que fuit Philippi le forester precii
iiijs, et unum stirk quod fuit Walteri filii Willelmi precii xxd, et duo boves
qui fuerunt Galfridi filii Hugonis precii viijs, et una vacca, duo boves et
unus vitulus qui fuerunt Walteri Bateman precii xijs iiijd, et iij boves
qui fuerunt Hugonis filii Galfridi precii xijs, et x boves, iiij vacce et tria
stirks qui fuerunt Roberti de Duuethweyt precii lvijs, et iij boves qui
fuerunt Willelmi de Duuethweyt precii xijs, et unum stirk quod fuit
Willelmi filii Roberti de Duuethweyt precii xxd, et unus bos qui fuit
Agnetis de Spaunton precii iiijs, et tres boves qui fuerunt Walteri de
Duuethweyt precii xijs, et tres boves et una vacca qui fuerunt Johannis

Man ; within the covert seven pigs and five hogs worth 7s and 5s
respectively, the property of the late Robert de Beverley, for which
John Meaux is responsible.

In the year 13 10 to 13 n six oxen and two cows worth £1 10s, the
property of the Rector of Lastingham, three oxen and a stirk worth
1 Is 8d, the property of Henry the woodward, a heifer worth 4s, the
property of Philip the forester, a stirk Is 8d, of Walter, the son of
William, two oxen, of Geoffrey, son 8s of Hugh, a cow, two oxen, and
a calf 12s 4d, of Walter Bateman, three oxen 12s, of Hugh, son of
Geoffrey, ten oxen, four cows, and three stirks £2 17s, of Robert de
Dowthweyt, three oxen 12s, of William de Dowthweyt, a stirk Is 8d,
of William, son of Robert de Dowthweyt, an ox 4s, of Agnes de
Spaunton, three oxen 12s, of Walter de Dowthweyt, three oxen and a
cow 15s, of John de Hutton in the Hole, a mare 3s, of Walter of the
* See Vol. II., N.S., Introduction, p. xxvii.

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de Heton Underhegh precii xvs, et unum jumentum quod fuit Walteri
de Mora de Hoton precii iijs, et v boves et unum stirk qui fuerunt
Johannis Moryng de Duuethweyt precii xxjs iijd, et tres boves et una
vacca que fuerunt Willelmi Overwater precii xixs, et tres boves due
vacce et duo vituli qui fuerunt Stephani Dryng precii xxjs iiija, et duo
boves qui fuerunt Stephani filii Rose precii viijs, et tres boves et una
vacca qui fuerunt Willelmi filii Benedicti precii xvs, et iiij boves qui
fuerunt Willelmi filii ejus precii xvjs, et iiij boves qui fuerunt Roberti
filii Benedicti precii xvjs, et iiij boves qui fuerunt Willelmi de Eppelby
precii xvjs, et unus bos et unum stirk qui fuerunt Willelmi Westiby
precii vs viijd, et una vacca que fuit Roberti Rodbrayth precii iijs, et
tres boves, una vacca et unum stirk qui fuerunt Willelmi filii Johannis
precii xvjs viijd, et duo boves qui fuerunt Stephani del Hill precii viijs,
et unus bos qui fuit Elene Cokerel precii iiijs, et tres boves qui fuerunt
Willelmi filii Thome precii xijs, et v boves qui fuerunt Johannis de
Spaunton precii xxs, et tres boves qui faerunt Alicie filie Stephani
precii xijs, et iij boves et una vacca qui fuerunt Willelmi Northiby precii
xixs, et duo stirks que fuerunt Willelmi Couper precii iijs iiijd, et unum
stirk quod fuit Thome filii Cecilie precii xxd, et v boves et v stirks
qui fuerunt hominum villate de Marton precii xxviijs iiijd, inventi
fuerunt in foresta ista in alta mora in dominicis domini juxta Lefhou
per wardam factam que forisfaciuntur domino precii predicti. Ideo
quilibet eorum respondebit pro precio averiorum suorum. Postea
testatum est per ministros predictos quod averia predicta liberata fuerunt

Moor of Hutton, five oxen and a stirk £i is 3d, of John Moryng of
Dowthweyt, three oxen and a cow i9s,vof William Overwater, three
oxen, two cows, and two calves £1 is 4d, of Stephen Dryng, two oxen
8s, of Stephen, son of Rose, three oxen and a cow 15s, of William, son
of Benet, four oxen 16s, of William his son, four oxen 16s, of Robert,
son of Benet, four oxen 16s, of William de Appleby, an ox and a stirk
5s 8d, of William Westby, a cow 3s, of Robert Rodbrayth, three oxen,
a cow, and a stirk 16s 8d, of William, son of John, two oxen 8s, of
Stephen del Hill, an ox 4s, of Helen Cokerell, three oxen 12s, of
William, son of Thomas, five oxen £1, of John de Spaunton, three
oxen 12s, of Alice, daughter of Stephen, three oxen and a cow 19s, of
William Northby, two stirks 3s 4d, of William Couper, one stirk Is 8d,
of Thomas, son of Cecilia, five oxen and five stirks £1 8s 4d, of the
men of the township of Marton, were found on the High Moor, in the
forest in the Earl's demesnes near Leaf Howe on making ward, which
are forfeited to the Earl at the above values. Each of them is
responsible for the price of his animal. Afterwards it appears that the
animals were delivered to John Cruel and Adam de Thormotby, the

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sub precio xxij1' xiijs Tohanni Cruel et Ade de Thormotby ballivis tunc
Abbatis beate Marie Eboracensis tempore domini Thome tunc comitis
Lancastrie fratis comitis qui nunc est cujus heres ipse est de mandato
ipsius Thome, eo quod forisfactam predictam ei pardonavit. Ideo etc.
Item presentant quod anno regni domini E. patris domini Regis nunc
supradicto duo boves qui fuerunt Nicholai Parcarii de Kirkeby Morset
precii viijs, et vj boves et tria stirks qui fuerunt Willelmi in le Hirne
precii xxixs, et iiij boves et duo stirks qui fuerunt Willelmi Cundy de
eadem precii xixs iiijd, [2 74] et unus bos et tria jumenta qui fuerunt Thome
filii Constancie de eadem precii xiijs, et due vacce que fuerunt Stephani
Brounyng de eadem precii vjs, et unum jumentum quod fuit Thome
Blank de eadem precii iijs et unum stirk quod fuit Willelmi filii Ade de
eadem precii xxd, et una vacca que fuit Thome filii Laurencii de eadem
precii iijs, et unus bos qui fuit Alani de Werdale de eadem precii iiijs,
et unum stirk quod fuit Alani Bagot de eadem precii xxd, et unum
stirk quod fuit Rogeri Tan [or Tau] de eadem precii xxd, et xj boves
qui fuerunt Johannis forester de Gillingmor precii xliiijs, et unus bos et
duo stirks qui fuerunt Roberti fabri de Farndale precii vijs iiijd, et v
boves qui fuerunt Walteri filii ejusdem Roberti de eadem precii xxs, et
tres boves qui fuerunt Johannis filii Simonis de eadem precii xijs, et
una vacca et unum stirk precii iiij s viijd que fuerunt Hugonis Leverok
de eadem, et iiij boves et tria stirks qui fuerunt Simonis Cundy de
Kirkeby Morset precii xxjs, et sex boves qui fuerunt Willelmi Stibbyng

bailiffs of the then Abbot of St. Mary's, York, in the time of Thomas,
Earl Lancaster, at the latter's command, for the sum of ^22 13s,
because he pardoned him the forfeiture.*

In the same year two oxen, the property of Nicholas the Parker,
worth 8s, six oxen and three stirks of William in the Horn £1 9s, four
oxen and two stirks of William Cundy 19s 4d, an ox and three mares
of Thomas, son of Constance, 13s, two cows of Stephen Browning 6s,
a mare of Thomas White 3s, a stirk of William, son of Adam, Is 8d, a
cow of Thomas, son of Laurence 3s, an ox of Alan de Weardale 4s, a
stirk of Alan Bagot is 8d, a stirk of Roger Tan is 8d, all of Kirby
Moorside ; eleven oxen of John the forester of Gillingmoor £2 4s ; an
ox and two stirks of Robert the smith 7s 4d, five oxen of Walter, his
son, £1, three oxen of John, son of Simon, 12s, a cow and a stirk of
Hugh Laverock 4s 8d, all of Farndale ; four oxen and three stirks of
Simon Cundy of Kirkby Moorside jQi is, six oxen of William Stibbing

* I do not pretend to understand this. Who was pardoned is not quite clear, and
the sum mentioned is almost, if allowing for slight errors in copying, quite the same
as the total of the fines. Probably they were all tenants of the Abbot whose bailiffs
redeemed them, but this does not explain everything.

62 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

de Farndale precii xxiiij3, et v boves et iiij vacce et iiij stirks qui
fuerunt Willelmi de Waldehus de eadem precii xxxviijs viijd, et iiij
boves et unum stirk qui fuerunt Johannis filii Walteri de eadem precii
xvijs viijd, et una vacca que fuit Alicie filie Rogeri precii iijs, et sex
boves, duo bovetti et duo jumenta que fuerunt Henrici filii Hugonis de
eadem precii xxxviijs, et sex boves et una vacca qui fuerunt Nicholai
filii Ade de eadem precii xxvijs, et sex boves qui fuerunt Hugonis del
Radmire de eadem precii xxiiijs, et quinque boves qui fuerunt Willelmi
ad portam de eadem precii xxs, et ix boves, una vacca et unum stirk
qui fuerunt Johannis Bercarii de eadem precii xljs viijd, et una bovetta
que fuit Rogeri garcionis ejus precii iiijs, et unus bos et una bovetta qui
fuerunt Nicholai de Harland de eadem precii vijs, et iiij boves et due
vacce qui fuerunt Alani de Wrelton* de eadem precii xixs, et due
bovette et unus bos qui fuerunt Stephani filii Willelmi precii xijs, et iiij
boves, iij bovette, una vacca, duo jumenta et j stirk qui fuerunt
Johannis filii Helewis precii xxxviijs viijd, et una vacca que fuit
Matillidis la Huntere precii iijs, et vj boves qui fuerunt Ade de Marton
precii xxiiijs, et iiij boves qui fuerunt persone de Northmanby precii xvjs,
et duo boves qui fuerunt Ricardi de Calthorn precii viijs, et unus vitulus
qui fuit Thome Tendant precii xvjd, et unum stirk quod fuit Agnetis
filie Willelmi clerici precii xxd, et unum stirk quod fuit Thome Sitewell
precii xxd, et unus bos qui fuit Nicholai filii Ricardi de Kirkeby precii
iiij5, et unum stirk quod fuit Walteri del Wode precii xxd, et duo boves

£1 4s, five oxen, four cows and four stirks of William de Woldhousef
£i 18s 8d, four oxen and a stirk of John, son of Walter 17s 8d, a
cow of Alice, daughter of Roger, 3s, six oxen, two young oxen and two
mares of Henry, son of Hugh, £1 18s, six oxen and a cow of Nicholas,
son of Adam, £1 7s, six oxen of Hugh del Redmire £i 4s, five oxen
of William at the Gate £1, nine oxen, a cow and a stirk of John
Shepherd £2 is 8d, a heifer of Roger, his servant, 4s, an ox and a
heifer of Nicholas de Harland 7s, four oxen and two cows of Alan de
Wrelton 19s, all of Farndale; two heifers and an ox of Stephen, son of
William, 12s, four oxen, three heifers, a cow, two mares and a stirk of
John, son of Helewis, £1 18s 8d, a cow of Matilda the huntressj 3s,
six oxen of Adam de Marton £1 4s, four oxen of the Rector of
Normanby 16s, two oxen of Richard de Cawthorn 8s, a calf of Thomas
Tendant Is 4d, a stirk of Agnes, daughter of William the clerk is 8d,
a stirk of Thomas Sitwell Is 8d, an ox of Nicholas, son of Richard of
Kirkby Moorside, 4s, a stirk of Walter del Wode is 8d, two oxen of

* This can, I think, scarcely be the late forester of fee, mentioned at Vol. II.,

N.S.,p. 55-

t Near Flixton. X This, if a nickname, is worthy of notice.

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qui fuerunt Roberti filii Lyolf precii viijs, et unus bos et una vacca qui
fuerunt Willelmi de Merston precii vijs, et duo boves qui fuerunt Petri
Wyles de Egton precii viijs, et unum stirk quod fuit Theobaldi de
Cropton precii xxd inventi fuerunt in foresta predicta ibidem per
wardam factam que forisfaciuntur domino precii predicti. Ideo
quilibet ipsorum respondebit de precio averiorum suorum. [274b].
Summa tocius forisfacture xxxH.

Postea venit Thomas* dominus de Lydel et dicit quod predictus
Robertusf Parcarius et omnes alii preterquam predicti persona de
Northmanby, Ricardus de Calthorn, Thomas Tendant, Agnes filia
Willelmi clerici et Thomas Sitewell sunt homines et tenentes sui, et
pro seipso et eis dicit quod statim postquam averia predicta forisfacta
fuerunt per hujusmodi wardam predicti homines et tenentes sui
denarios predictos sub precio predicto Johanni de Dalton tunc con-
stabulario domini Thome tunc comitis Lancastrie fratris domini
comitis nunc cujus heres ipse est, castri predicti et custodi foreste
predicte, et Rogero le Long tunc clerico ipsius constabularii solverunt,
et hoc paratus est verificare per omnes ministros istius foreste, et petit
quod predicti Johannes et Rogerus tunc constabularius et clericus
veniant ad ipsum et tenentes suos in hac parte exonerandos. Et
predictus Rogerus presens in curia bene cognovit se denarios predictos
nomine et precepto predicti Johannis de Dalton tunc magistri et
constabularii castri predicti recepisse ut clericus ipsius Johannis ad
opus dicti domini Thome tunc comitis et inde vocat predictum

Robert, son of Lyolf, 8s, an ox and a cow of William de Marston 7s,
two oxen of Peter Wyles of Egton 8s, and a stirk of Theobald de
Cropton is 8d, were found in the forest and forfeited. Each is to be
responsible for the value of his animal. Total ^30.

Afterwards Thomas Wake, Lord of Liddell, appears and says that
all the above named, except the Rector of Normanby, Richard de
Cawthorn, Thomas Tendant, Agnes, daughter of William the clerk, and
Thomas Sitwell are his men and tenants, and for himself and them he
says that immediately after the animals were forfeited his tenants paid
the sums at which they were apprized to John de Dalton, then
Constable of the Castle and Keeper of the forest for Thomas Earl of
Lancaster, and to Roger le Long the Constable's clerk, and this he is
ready to prove, and he asks that the Constable and his clerk may be
summoned to exonerate him and his tenants. Roger being present in
court acknowledges that he received the money in the name and by
order of his master, John de Dalton, then Constable, as his clerk, for
the use of Earl Thomas, and he calls upon John. John being present
* i.e., Thomas Wake. t Called Nicholas before.

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Johannem ; qui quidem Johannes presens in curia non cognoscendus
[?] recepcionem denariorum predictorum pro seipso et Rogero dicit
quod denarii predicti computati fuerunt in compoto tunc prepositi de
Pikeryng coram auditoribus compoti predicti Thome tunc comitis anno
regni dicti domini E. patris domini Regis nunc quarto, qui quidem
prepositus inde et de aliis exitibus ballive de Pikeryng allocacionem
possidebat, et de hoc vocat recordum rotulorum compoti predicti
coram auditoribus predictis, et habeant hie ad proximam sessionem
etc.

Adhuc de manucapcione eorum quiconvicti sunt detransgressione

venacionis in foresta predicta quod amodo bene se gerent

et in foresta ista predicta non forisfacient.

Manucaptores Willelmi Touchepryk* Adam de Bewer, Willelmus de

Ampelford, Rogerus Trutcock, Walterus Trussele, .... Thome filii

Johannis le clerc de Levesham Johannes clerc de Levesham, Alanus de

Neuton, Willelmus Shepherd, Walterus Trussele, .... Galfridi filii

Simonis del Hull Simon del Hull, Robertus Scot, Radulphus del Dale,

Thomas Martegale, .... Johannis Scot de Lokton Robertus Scot de

Lokton, Radulphus de la Dale, Thomas Martegale, Hugo le Taillour

de Lokton, .... Willelmi Curcy [275] Radulphus Hastings

miles, Willelmus Plays miles, Thomes Bret, Nicholaus Gower, ....

Ricardi de Helmesle Johannes Scarp, Willelmus de Gilyngmore,

Radulphus filius Matillidis, Johannes de Malton de Pikering, ....

Willelmi de Hovigham Nicholaus de Haldan, Petrus Broun,
Radulphus de Assh, Willelmus Fissher, .... Johannes de Helmesle
Nicholaus de Halden, Nicholaus Gower, Nicholaus Courcy, Johannes
Chaumpard de Bergh, .... Willelmi de Dundale Nicholaus de
Halden, Petrus Broun de Salden, Johannes Fox, Jordanus Fox, ....

Willelmi de Langwath Radulphus de Hastyng, Thomas Bret,

in court says that the money was reckoned in the accounts of the reeve
of Pickering, before the auditors of Earl Thomas, in the year 13 11, and
that the said accounts, both as to this matter and the other issues of the
bailiwick, were duly passed. He craves leave to refer to the rolls of the
proceedings before the auditors. The matter is adjourned until the
next sittings.

Sureties for the good behaviour of those who have been convicted
of poaching in the forest.

* As at p. 140 et seq. of Vol. II., N.S., the names of those who find sureties are
printed in italics. Some of the names have occurred before, but they find fresh
sureties.

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Nicholaus Gower, Willelmus Courey, .... Johannis de Yeland Hugo
de Yeland, Nicholaus de Halden, Ricardus de Nalton, Nicholaus
Gower, Willelmus Courey, .... Hugonis de Yeland Nicholaus de
Halden, Ricardus de Naulton, Nicholaus Gower, Edmundus de
Hastyng, .... Johannis de Kilvyngton Rogerus Trutcok, Radulphus

de Morton, Willelmus Courtman, Walterus Trussele Galfridi

de Langedon Galfridus de Haulay, Alanus filius Radulphi, Petrus filius
Willelmi de Hoton, Johannes filius Willelmi, .... Johannis Bercarii,
persone ecdesie de Levesham, johannis filii yolutnnis clerici Johannes
de Levesham, Radulphus del Dale, Robertus Baldelot, Robertus
filius Roberti Itory,* .... Abrahe le Milner Abraham Knot,
Willelmus Lamb, Ricardus filius Rogeri, Radulphus de Morton,
.... Willelmi de Boston Galfridus Haulay, Alanus Dausone,
Petrus filius Willelmi de Hoton, Johannes filius Petri de Hoton, ....
Willelmi Afoyson /unions, Rogeri Drye, Willelmi Smyth de Hakenesse
Galfridus de Haulegh de Hoton, f Alanus filius Radulphi de Roston,
Johannes filius Willelmi de Hoton, Petrus filius Willelmi de eadem,
.... [275b] Willelmi Capel Ricardus de Naulton, Thomas Thurney,
Henricus Kelk, Radulphus de Morton, .... Alani de Holm Adam le
Rede, Radulphus de Morton, Johannes Dasshe, Petrus Gile, ....
Roberti filii Marmeduci de Tweng Radulphus de Hastyng miles,
Willelmus Plays miles, Thomas Bret, Nicholaus Gower, .... Petri
filii Henrici le Yonge de Rossedale, Johannis le Calvehird Abraham
Knot, Willelmus del Tung de Hartoft, Johannes le Stirkehird,
Radulphus de Morton, .... Galfridi Wylen de Levesham Willelmus
Broun de Levesham, Willelmus [? filius] Emme de Kynthorp,
Willelmus de Wyresdale, Walterus de Levesham, .... Roberti de
Lokton Abraham Snot [? Knot] Johannes Stirkehirde, Willelmus del
Tung, Willelmus de Levesham, .... Willelmi Bullok Abraham Snot
[sic], Johannes Stirkehirde, Willelmus del Tung, Johannes Mot, ....
Thome Gnatel Willelmus de Everle, Walterus Trussele, Henricus Kelk,
Adam de Bewer, . . . Thome de Hamptwayt David de Neuton,
Alanus de Neuton capellanus, Alanus de Neuton, Adam de Neuton
.... Rogeri filii Em?ne de Rcssedale Willelmus del Marays de
Pykering, Nicholaus de Repynghale, Willelmus Lombe de Hartoft,
Abraham Snot de Rossedale, .... Roberti Moryng, Roberti Siibbyng,
Nicholaus de Repynghale, Abraham Snot de Rossedale, Willelmus
Lambe de Hartoft, Johannes filius Emme, .... Willelmi de Yeland
Johannes de Dalton, Ricardus de Naulton, Robertus de Pikeryng,
Robertus de Morton, .... Roberti Lelom, Johannis Wodecok Ricardus

* The rector himself was also called John, son of Ralph Itory, see Vol. II., N.S.,
p. 114. Itory is in one place written Story.

t As before, I combine names having the same sureties.

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66 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

de Naulton, [276] Robertas de Pikeryng, Johannes Mot, Thomas Glaver,
.... Willelmi le Wode Radulphus de Morton, Thomas Blaver,
Johannes Lixi, Thomas Fount, .... Johannis Darel Rogerus Large,
Thomas Thurnef, Radulphus de Morton, Nicholaus Haldan, ....
Ricardi Darell Rogerus le Lang,* Thomas Thurnef, Radulphus de
Morton, Nicholaus Haldan, .... Willelmi de Dicerton Thomas Bret,
Willelmus Sterre, Henricus de Kelk, Radulphus de Morton, ....
Thome Blount Nicholaus Haldeyn, Henricus de Kelk, Johannes Broun,
Johannes Irlond de Ebreston, .... Johannis filii Gocelini Willelmus
Plays chivaler, Willelmus de Croppyng, Thomas Blount, Johannes
Mountpelers, .... Thome de Hippeswell Nicholaus de Topclyf,
Conracus de Tyverton, Johannis de Berneston, Henricus le clerc,
.... Johannis de Metham Radulphus de Hastyng miles, Willelmus
Plays miles, .... Roberti Goos de Brokesay Willelmus de Crep-
pyngges, Robertus de Roderham, Thomas Bret, Henricus de Dale,
.... Johannis filii Johannis le Wode molendinarii Johannes filius
Thome de Irton, Willelmus de Creppyng, Henricus de Kelk,
Radulphus de Morton, .... Joha7inis le Rede de Shefhogh [? Silpho]
Robertus de Roderham, Walterus de Trusseley, Henricus de Dale,
Johannes Filyng, .... Willelmi filii Rogeri Carectarii senioris,
Johannis filii Rogeri atte Cros Willelmus Ward, Thomas Bret, ....
Roberti Bealde Willelmus de Persay miles, Willelmus de Everle,
Radulphus de Morton, Henricus de Kelk, .... Willelmi de la
Chapel Ricardus de Naulton, Willelmus Coursy, Radulphus de
Morton, Henricus de Kelk, .... Rogeri Nunde Alanus de Wrelton,
Rogerus Trutcok, Henricus de Kelk, Radulphus de Morton, ....
Hugonis de Eland chivaler Radulphus de Hastyng chivaler, Walterus
de Crayke chivaler, .... Willelmi filii Alani le Cartere Willelmus
Ward, Thomas Bret, .... Reginaldi Lyard de Scardeburgh
Willelmus Ward, Thomas Bret, .... [276b] Johannis de Brigham
Thomas Bret, Radulphus de Morton, .... Willelmi filii Rogeri de
Pert Willelmus Curcy, Robertus de Pikeryng clericus, .... Willelmi
de Ergom capellani Robertus de Pikeryng, Willelmus de Bruys, ....
Ade dictus [sic] Adam Prud Thomas Bret, Robertus de Roderham,
.... Willelmi filii Radulphi de Roston Thomas de Roston,
Radulphus de Morton, .... Ricardi filii Henrici Herre Willelmus
Courcy, Robertus de Pikeryng clericus, Thomas de Pikeryng,
Johannes de Pert.

* Evidently the same name as that heading the preceding list.

COUCHER BOOK. 67

Placita apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc., die Lune proximo post
festum sancti Gregorii Pape anno regni domini Regis nunc

Preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod venire faciat coram prefatis Justi-
ciariis hie ad hunc diem Robertum de Chibourn, Willelmum le Archer,
Johannem de Stokesle, Johannem Stubbyng, Johannem de Lande-
mote, Johannem de Sutton, Johannem de Metham, Robertum de
Saltmerssh, Willelmum de Touton capellanum, VValterum de Dyngelby,
Johannem de Dyngelby, Robertum filium Simonis de Farndale,
Petrum filium Henrici del Tung, Robertum del Clos de Lesteryk,f
Ricardum de Richemound sutorem de Whiteby, Willelmum Freman,
Johannem Blere, Robertum de Hampton personam ecclesie de Midel-
ton, Johannem filium Henrici del Tung, Walterum de Saynton,J
Robertum fratrem Thome de Bossale, Willelmum Page wodewardum
de Aton, Willelmum Rome, Thomam le wodewardum de Staynton,
Ricardum Wrote wodewardum, Willelmum filii Radulphi molendi-
narium, Willelmum filium Willelmi Jurour, Thomam de Collum,
Robertum Porcioun, Willelmum de Eton de Hakeneys, Johannem
Phelip, Laurencium Mody, Johannem filium Willelmi Maynhermer,
Ricardum Wyther, Adam Mabbe, Robertum de Hartoft, Johannem de
Boyngton, Rogerum [2 7 7] Prisoun, § Ingelramum le Forester, Radulphum
Roke, Galfridum fratrem Marmeduci de Acclom, Radulphum Wacklyn,
Adam filium Thome, Hugonem Prudhome, Galfridum Maucovenaunt,
Hugonem le Barker de Whiteby, Thomam Bene de Riswarp, Johannem
filium Johannis de Seton de Hilderwell, Radulphum Durhem, Henri-
Pleas held at Pickering on Monday, 13 March, 1335, II before
Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury.

The Sheriff was ordered to summon the above-named to appear this
day before the Justices, to satisfy the Earl for their fines, for poaching
in the forest, of which they were convicted before the Justices by the
evidence of the foresters, verderers, and other officers. They do not
appear, and the Sheriff returns that they are not to be found and have
nothing in his bailiwick by means of which they can be attached.
He is therefore ordered to seize them and keep them safely,
so that he can produce them before the Justices on Monday, 15 May,
1335-

* In the Calendar at the commencement this is given as March 10th, not 12th.

t Called Leceryk elsewhere. See Vol. II., N.S., p. 68.

% Snaynton in later lists. § In a later list this seems written Priscun.

|| I follow here as in the other volumes the new style, 1335 therefore must be
understood for 1334-1335, and so of other dates.

F 2

68 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

cum de Fissheburn, Petrum clericum Henrici de Percy, Martinum le
Palfreyman, Robertum filium Rogeri de Birkschowe, Robertum filium
Thome on the Grene de Staynton,* Galfridum de Lepyngdon,
Robertum de Acclom, Johannem filium Roberti de Acclom, Gal-
fridum filium Roberti de Acclom, Rogerum de Barneby. Rogerum
Peresparkerf de Maulay, Alanum venatorem Abbatis de Whiteby,
Rogerum Rabuk, Bartholomeum fabrum de Hakenesse, Walterum
Foun de Silfou, Reginaldum Burheved de Saldene, Johannem de
Hamelton, Mariskinum venatorem Johannis de Hamelton et
Robertum fratrem ejusdem Mariskini, Johannem Malkynsone,
Wilielmum filium Thome filii Stephani, Willelmum de Haverdale,
Johannem de Carleton, Willelmum de Rykhale supra Calethorne,
Matheum Sturmy, Nicholaum Sturmy, Johannem de Lounesdale,
Johannem de Vescy, Alanum filium Johannis de Thornton, Radulphum
filium Petri de Marton, Robertum de Westerdale, Johannem Calipanne
garcionem Rogeri Haldan, Petrum Sleveles, Alexandrum Pape de
Halden, Ricardum filium Willelmi de Eton, Robertum filium Willelmi
Spayne de Brumpton, Rogerum filium Cib de Birschou, Petrum de
Ntuton, Johannem filium Patricii de Westerdale, Johannem Burheved
de Salden, Nicholaum de la Ley, Adam Scot, Rogerum de Lokton,
Galfridum de Everle, Nicholaum de Levesham garcionem ejusdem
Galfridi, Rogerum de Barneby, Thomam filium Stephani de Assheby,
Johannem de Marton, Johannem dominum de Berghby, Willelmum
Duk forestarium Abbatis de Rievall, Willelmum de Fissheburn,
Willelmum de Seteryngton wodewardum de Levesham, Robertum
Spynk, Johannem dictum Prester Johan. Johannem de Brigham,
Willelmum de Shupton forestarium Abbatis beate Marie Eboracensis,
Willelmum de Askeby, Willelmum filium Roberti Todde, Petrum
garcionem Petri de Acclom, Johannem Paulyn garcionem ejusdem
Petri, Walterum le Hunter, Willelmum Page de Aton, Willelmum
filium Radulphi de Roston, Willelmum de Boythorp, Thomam Daun-
cour,J Simonem filium Alani de Scardeburgh, Adam de Lundon de
Repilton, Gilbertum de Bulmere manentem in Harewode, Thomam
de Hoton, Jacobum de Bulford, Robertum fratrem Willelmi Touche-
pryk, Johannem Male forester, Johannem garcionem Edmundi de
Hastynges junioris, Willelmum Rufait, Radulphum de Yeland,
Thomam filium Willelmi de Dales, Johannem de Mora, Radulphum
Skynner, Johannem Humet, Herbertum de Yeland, Johannem Kempe,
Rogerum de Harewode, Willelmum Couper de Scardeburgh, Rogerum
servientem ejusdem Willelmi, Willelmum de Rosels, Adam dictum
Proud Adam, Willelmum de Dales, Rogerum Grymet, Robertum le
Veutrer, Robertum de Doumfremlyn, Willelmum filium' Willelmi de
* In later lists Steyngate. f See Vol. II., N.S., p. 87. J Or Danneour.

COUCHER BOOK. 69

Fissheburn, Johannem Morolf, Alexandrum Pyper, Adam de Helper-
thorp et Robertum fratrem ejus, Willelmum Lyard, Robertum filium Alani
le Carecter, Johannem Munkeman, Johannem filium Thome le Salter,
Willelmum de Fifele, Henry le Lang de Scardeburgh, Michaelum
[277b] Rosels, Nicholaum Pykstan, Adam le Spicer, Johannem
filium Johannis filii Augustini de Pikeryng, Alanum filium Johannis
le Neuthird de Farmanby, Hugonem Savage, Willelmum de Thor-
nyngtwayt, Thomam le Harpour de Comburhalle, Hugonem de Eland,
Radulphum de Sheffeld de Kildale, Johannem Egton de Danby,
Johannem Wyles, Walterum le Tournour, Johannem servientem
Johannis de Bordesden, Henricum Man of Men,* Edmundum de
Waghere, Johannem Fichet, Willelmum filium Rogeri de Pert,
Johannem Cruel et Edmundum filium ejus, Willelmum le Parcour,
Johannem dictum Jak Hare, Willelmum filium Thome del Hunthous,
Willelmum de Everle, Johannem de Daneby, Johannem le Stalker,
Willelmum filium Thome molendinarium de Dalton, Willelmum de
Kirkeham wodewardum, Thomam filium Alberdi, Rogerum filium
Alani le Carter et Willelmum fratrem ejus, Robertum de Helperthorp,
Johannem le Munkeman, Willelmum filium Rogeri le Carter,
Johannem filium Rogeri ad Crucem, Willelmum filium Lygard et
Reginaldum fratrem ejus, Thomam sutorem de Scardeburgh,
Walterum Foune, Anselmum de Leyceter, Thomam de Blishton,
Johannem servientem Roberti de Percy, Ricardum de Sulby,
Willelmum Fossard, Johannem de Calveton, Robertum filium Johannis
de Scalby, Johannem servientem Willelmi de Nafferton vicarii ecclesie
de Scalby, Ricardum filium Henrici Herre, Willelmum filium Henrici,
Adam filium Henrici Rappat, Johannem Abbotsonef de Roscedale,
Robertum de Myton servientem de Normanby, Ricardum de Spofford,
Jordanum de Aleyntoftes, Ricardum de Shupton de Raskele,
Willelmum filium Rogeri le Carter juniorem, Robertum Cut, Johannem
de Gosnarchf forestarium, Ricardum Russel, Ricardum Moryn de
Roscedale, Willelmum Trotan de Spaunton, Rogerum del Milne de
Farnedale, Robertum filium Petri de Farndale, Walterum Blachose,
Radulphum del Heved et Willelmum del Ergom § capellanum ad satis-
faciendum domino Comiti de redempcione sua pro transgressione
venacionis in foresta ista facta, unde coram prefatis Justiciariis per

* Homo hominum, at Vol. II., N.S., p. 86, and therefore not so clearly a slip as
I then thought.

+ An explanation of Johannes filius Abbe at Vol. II., N.S., p. 107.

+ Also written Gosnargh.

§ At Yorks. Arch. Society (Record Series), Vol. XII., p. 298, we find Ergumasthe
old name of Airy Holme in Cleveland ; there was also Eryholme near Croft on the
Tees, see S. P., p. 228 : but possibly Argamnear North Burton gives us the name in
this place.

•JO DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

forestarios, viridarios et alios ministros convicti sunt ; et ipsi non
veniunt, et vicecomes retornat quod predicti Robertas de Chibourn et
alii non sunt inventi nee aliquid habent in balliva sua per quod possunt
attachiari. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod capiat eos si etc., et
salvo etc., ita quod habeat corpora eorum hie coram prefatis Justiciariis
die Lune proximo post mensem Pasche ad satisfaciendum etc.

Placita tenta apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby

et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc., die Lune proximo

post mensem Pasche anno supradicto.

Preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod caperet etc [the same names with a

few omissions, which are probably unintentional, follow, and the writ

concludes in the same form] [278b] ita quod habeat corpora eorum

coram prefatis Justiciariis die Martis proximo post tres Septimanas

Sancti Michaelis ad satisfaciendum.

[279] Placita tenta apud Pikering coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Shardelowe Justiciariis etc., die Martis
proximo post tres septimanas Sancti Michalis anno supradicto.

Preceptum fuit vicecomiti sicut alias quod capiat [the same remarks
apply to this list. It concludes] [280] Ita quod habeat corpora eorum
coram prefatis Justiciariis die Jovis proximo post octabas Purificacionis
beate Marie ad satisfaciendum. Ad quern diem Jovis apud Pikeryng
coram predicto Johanne de Hambury tantum venit Ricardus de la Pole
et protulit breve domini Regis patens in hec verba.* Edwardus dei gracia
Rex Anglie, domirms Hibernie et dux Aquitannie dilecto et fideli suo
Ricardo de la Pole salutem. Sciatis quod cum nuper ad requisicionem
dilecti consanguinei et fidelis nostri Henrici Comitis Lancastrie con-
stituerimus dilectos et fideles nostras Ricardum de Wylughby, Johannem

Pleas held at Pickering on Monday, 15 May, 1335, before Richard
de Willoughby and John de Hambury.

A second order was given to the Sheriff to seize the offenders.

Pleas held at Pickering on Tuesday, 31 October, 1335, before

Richard de Willoughby and John de Shardelowe.

An order was given to seize the offenders and produce them on

15 February, 1336, on which day Richard de la Pole appeared before

John de Hambury and produced the King's letters patent, which after

reciting the appointment of the Justices of the Forest, and that John de

* See Rot. Pat. 10 Ed. III., pt. I, m. 43-

COUCHER BOOK. 7l

de Shardelowe, Robertum de Hungerford et Johannem de Hambury tres
vel duos eorum quorum alterum predictorum Ricardi et Johannis de
Shardelowe unum esse volumus, Justiciarios ad itinerandum ad placita
foreste ejusdem Comitis de Pikering in Comitatu Eboracensi a tempore
quo Edmundus, nuper comes Lancastrie, pater predicti Henrici cujus
heres ipse est, placita foreste in eadem foresta virtute concessionis sibi
per dominum E. nuper Regem Anglie avum nostrum inde facte ultimo
tenuit; ac prefatus Johannes de Shardelowe premissis faciendis vacare
non possit ut accepimus, nos loco ejusdem Johannis de Shardelowe
constituimus vos Justiciarium ad premissa una cum predicto Ricardo,
Roberto et Johanne de Hambury, duobus vel uno eorum facienda*
intendatis. Mandamus enim eisdem Ricardo, Roberto et Johanni de
Hambury quod ipsi, duo vel unus eorum vos loco predicti Johannis de
Shardelowe ad hoc in socium admittant sicut predictum est. In cujus
rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. T. me ipso
apud Knaresburgh x die Febr. anno regni nostri decimo.

Et super hoc dominus Rex mandavit prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby,
Roberto de Hungerford et Johanni de Hambury, duobus vel uni eorum
breve suum clausum in hec verba. Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie,
dominus Hibernie et dux Aquitannie dilectis et fidelibus suis Ricardo
de Wylughby, Roberto de Hungerford et Johanni de Hambury salutem.
Cum nuper ad requisicionem dilecti consanguinei et fidelis nostri
Henrici Comitis Lancastrie constituerimus vos et dilectum et fidelem
nostrum Johannem de Shardelowe, tres et duos vestrum quorum vos,
prefate Ricarde, vel predictum Johannem de Shardelowe unum esse
volumus, Justiciarios ad itinerandum ad placita foreste ejusdem Comitis
de Pikering in Comitatu Eboracensi a tempore quo Edmundus, nuper
Comes Lancastrie, pater predicti Henrici cujus heres ipse est, placita
foreste in eadem foresta virtute concessionis sibi per dominum E. nuper
Regem Anglie avum nostrum [280b] inde facte ultimo tenuit ; ac pre-
fatus Johannes de Shardelowe premissis faciendis vacare non possit ut
accepimus, et nos loco ejusdem Johannis de Shardelowe constituerimus
dilectum et fidelem nostrum Ricardum de la Pole Justiciarium ad

Shardelowe was too much occupied to be able to act as Justice,
appointed him, Richard de la Pole, in the place of John de Shardelowe,
to act with Richard de Willoughby, Robert de Hungerford, and John
de Hambury. The three last-mentioned were directed to receive him
as their fellow in the place of John de Shardelowe. Dated Knares-
borough, 10 February, 1336. A close writ had also been directed to

* The following words are omitted as appears from the Patent Rolls : — " et ex-
plenda in forma predicta ; et ideo vobis mandamus quod ad premissa una cum
predictis Ricardo, Roberto et Johanne, duobus vel uno eorum facienda."

72 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

premissa una vobiscum, duobus vel uno vestrum facienda et explenda
in forma predicta ; et ideo vobis mandamus quatinus vos, duo vel unus
vestrum prefatum Ricardum loco prefati Johannis ad hoc in socium
admittatis ; mandamus enim eidem Ricardo quod ad hoc una vobiscum
duobus vel uno vestrum intendat sicut predictum est. T. me ipso apud
Knaresburgh x die Febr. anno regni nostri decimo.

Virtute cujus brevis predictus Johannes de Hambury admisit
predictum Ricardum loco predicti Johannis de Shardelowe in socium
ad premissa facienda etc.

Placita apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Johanne de Hambury et

Ricardo de la Pole Justiciariis etc., predicto die Jovis proximo

post octabas Purificacionis beate Marie anno regni dicti

domini Regis nunc decimo.

Preceptum fait vicecomiti sicut pluries quod capiat [again the same

list; after the words per quod attachiari possunt there follows] [281b]

Et quia testatum est per predictos ministros quod predicti Robertus de

Chibourn et alii vagantes et latitantes sunt in Comitatu predicto et

vagantes possunt in eodem inveniri, preceptum est eidem vicecomiti

sicut pluries quod capiat eos si etc, ita quod habeat corpora eorum hie etc

die Mercurii proximo post festum Ascensionis Domini ad satisfaciendum

etc, et sciat vicecomes etc. Ad quem diem placita et processus predicta

remanserunt sine die per absenciam omnium Justiciariorum predictorum

alibi de mandato dicti domini Regis existencium, super quo dominus

Rex postea mandavit prefatis Justiciariis breve suum clausum in hec

verba. Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie, dominus Hibernie et dux

Aquitannie dilectis et fidelibus suis Ricardo de Wylughby, Roberto de

Hungerford, Johanni de Hambury et Ricardo de la Pole salutem.

Richard de Willoughby, Robert de Hungerford, and John de Hambury
to the same effect, and bearing the same date. John de Hambury
admitted Richard de la Pole to act with him in the place of John de
Shardelowe.

Pleas held at Pickering on Thursday, 15 February, 1336, before

John de Hambury and Richard de la Pole.

An order was again given to seize the offenders/ and as it appeared

that they were wandering and hiding in the county, the Sheriff was

ordered, as often before, to seize them and produce them on Wednesday,

22 May, 1336.

On which day all the pleas and other proceedings abated, in conse-
quence of the absence of all the Justices, who were occupied elsewhere
at the King's command. Afterwards the King directed the following

COUCHER BOOK. 73

Cum nuper ad requisicionem [as before down to ultimo tenuit],
subsequenterque intelligentes quod idem Johannes de Shardelovve
premissis una vobiscum, prefati Ricarde de Wylughby, Roberte et
Johannes, duobus vel uno vestrum faciendis vacare non potuit, loco
ejusdem [282] Johannis de Shardelovve constituerimus vos, prefate
Ricarde de la Pole Justiciarium ad premissa una vobiscum, prefate
Ricarde de Wylughby, Roberte et Johannes, duobus vel uno vestrum
facienda et explenda, prout in diversis Uteris nostris patentibus inde con-
fectis plenius continetur : ac tarn itinere predicto per vos prefate Ricarde
de Wylughby, Roberte et Johannes virtute constitucionum nostrarum
[? literarum] predictarum quam in diversis placitis inter quosdam fideles
nostras et alios coram vobis inchoatis et processubus inde factis,
certoque die ad ulterius procedendum in hac parte, videlicet die
Mercurii proximo post festum Ascensionis Domini proximum preterito
per vos, prefate Johannes et Ricarde de la Pole, prefixo, placita et
processus predicta coram vobis pendencia per absenciam vestram, tarn
prefati Johannes et Ricarde de la Pole, quam prefati Ricarde de
Wylughby et Roberte, eo quod tunc alibi in obsequio nostra stetistis
de mandato nostra, remanserunt sine die tam in ipsius Comitis quam
aliorum placita predicta contingencium* grave dampnum, ut idem comes
asserit, nobis supplicando quod de remedio in hac parte providere
curemus oportuno. Nos ad hoc quod placita et processus per absenciam
hujusmodi et non ex alia causa sine die remanserunt, consideracionem
habentes et volentes eo pretextu ne eadem placita et processus taliter
depereant, graciose agere in hac parte, vobis mandamus quod breve
nostrum sub testimonio vestro prefate Ricarde de Wylughby vicecomiti
nostra Comitatus predicti detis in mandatis quod placita et processus

close writ to the Justices. After reciting as before the original appoint-
ment of the Justices for Pickering Forest, and the appointment of
Richard de la Pole in the place of John de Shardelowe ; and that the
pleas and proceedings of the Eyre, which had been adjourned to
Wednesday, 22 May, 1336, by John de Hambury and Richard de la
Pole, had abated in consequence of the absence of all the Justices, who
were occupied elsewhere at the King's command, to the loss not only
of the Earl but of others whom the pleas affected ; and that the Earl
had petitioned for relief in this respect, the King, having regard to the
fact that the pleas and proceedings have abated in consequence of the
absence of the Justices and for no other cause, and being willing, lest
they should thus fail to act graciously, commanded Richard de
Willoughby to issue a writ in his name to the Sheriff of the county,
ordering him to have the pleas and proceedings before the Justices at
* Sic in Exchequer. The Duchy Coucher has contingunt.

74 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

predicta coram vobis, tribus vel duobus vestrum apud Pikeryng ad
aliquem certum diem quem ad hoc duxeritis assignandum in eodem
statu quo ad predictum diem Mercurii extiterunt, necnon partes quas
placita ilia et processus contingunt resumoniri faciat et reattachiari, ac
iter predictum ad diem ilium et omnia placita et processus predicta ac
alia quecunque extunc a die illo que ad vos, tres et duos vestrum juxta
assisam foreste pertinent teneatis, faciatis et expleatis, quatinus juxta
assisam predictam fuerit faciendum et non obstante quod dicta placita
et processus prius inchoata remanserunt sine die sicut predictum est. T.
me ipso apud Leycestre primo die Octobris anno regni nostri decimo.
Pretextu cujus brevis preceptum est vicecomiti Eboracensi quod venire
faciat hie etc die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Andree apostoli
predictos Robertum de Chibourn et alios convictos de transgressione
venacionis ad satisfaciendum domino Comiti, ita quod placita et
processus predicta tunc sint ibidem in eodem statu in quo fuerunt apud
Pikeryng predicto die Mercurii proximo post festum Ascensionis Domini
anno regni domini Regis nunc decimo quando ajornata fuerunt apud
Pikeryng, ad quem diem placita et processus predicta remanserunt sine
die per absenciam tam predictorum Johannis de Hambury et Ricardi de
la Pole quam predictorum Ricardi de Wylughby et Roberti de Hunger-
ford Justiciariorum etc alibi de mandato domini Regis nunc existencium.

Placita apud Pikeryng tenta coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby

et Ricardo de la Pole Justiciariis etc. predicto die Lune

proximo post festum Sancti Andree apostoli anno supradicto.

[282b] Preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod venire faciat coram prefatis

Justiciariis hie ad hunc diem [again the same list with the same

Pickering, on some day that they should think fit to fix, in the same con-
dition as they were on the said Wednesday, as well as again to summon
and attach the parties to whom the pleas and proceedings related, so that
the Justices might hold the Eyre on that day, and try and determine the
pleas and proceedings and all else that they ought to do according to the
Assize of the Forest, notwithstanding the abatement before mentioned.
Dated Leicester, 1 October, 1336. By virtue of which writ the
Sheriff was directed to summon the above-mentioned offenders to
appear on Monday, 2 December, 1336, so that the pleas and
proceedings might be in the same condition as they were when they
were adjourned to Wednesday, 22 May, 1336, and abated in conse-
quence of the absence of the Justices.

Pleas held at Pickering on Monday, 2 December, 1336, before
Richard de Willoughby and Richard de la Pole.
The Sheriff was ordered to summon the same offenders, so that the

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description as at page 67 ante to convicti sunt] [283b] Ita quod placita
et processus predicta essent hie in eodem statu in quo fuerunt apud
Pikeryng predicto die Mercurii proximo post festum Ascensionis Domini
proximum preterito quando atterminata fuerunt etc., et remanserunt sine
die per absenciam Justiciarorum etc. alibi existencium. Et ipsi non
veniunt, et vicecomes retornat quod predicti Robertus de Chibourn et
alii non sunt inventi nee aliquid habent in balliva sua per quod possunt
attachiari. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod capiat eos si etc., et salvo
etc., ita quod habeat corpora eorum hie coram prefatis Justiciariis die
Lune in secunda septimana quadragesime ad satisfaciendum etc.

Placita tenta apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby
et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc., die Lune in secunda
septimana quadragesime anno dicti domini Regis nunc xjm0.
Preceptum est vicecomiti quod caperet [again the same list with the
same return as on page 67. It concludes] [284b] Ideo sicut alias pre-
ceptum est vicecomiti quod capiat eos si etc., et salvo etc., ita quod
habeat corpora eorum hie coram prefatis Justiciariis die Lune proximo
post festum Sancti Mathei [apostoli] ad satisfaciendum etc.

Placita tenta apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby

et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. die Lune proximo

post festum Sancti Mathei apostoli anno supradicto.

Preceptum est vicecomiti sicut alias quod caperet [again the same list

with the usual return] [285b] Ideo sicut pluries preceptum est vicecomiti

quod capiat eos etc., et salvo etc., ita quod habeat corpora eorum

hie coram prefatis Justiciariis die Lune proximo ante festum Dominice

in [286] Ramis Palmarum ad satisfaciendum etc.

pleas and proceedings might be in the same condition as they were on the
Wednesday, 22 May, 1336, and abated in consequence of the absence
of the Justices. They do not appear, and the Sheriff returns that they
are not found and have nothing in his bailiwick by which they can be
attached. He is ordered to seize them and produce them on Monday,
17 March, 1337.

Pleas held at Pickering on Monday, 17 March, 1337, before
Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury.
A second order was given to the Sheriff to seize the same offenders
and produce them on Monday, 22 September, 1337.

Pleas held at Pickering on Monday, 22 September, 1337, before
Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury.
A third order was given to the Sheriff to seize the same offenders
and produce them on Monday, 31 March, 1338.

j6 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Placita tenta apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby
et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc., die Lune proximo
ante festum Dominice in Ramis Palmarum anno dicti domini
Regis nunc duodecimo etc.
Preceptum est vicecomiti sicut pluries quod caperet [again the same list
with the usual return] [287] Ideo exactis illis in instanti itinere primo
prout moris est preceptum est vicecomiti quod ulterius eos exigi faciat
de Comitatu in Comitatum quousque secundum legem et consuetudinem
etc. utlagentur, si non comparuerint, et si comparuerint tunc eos capiat
et salvo etc., ita quod habeat corpora eorum hie coram prefatis Justi-
ciariis etc. die Martis proximo post festum Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis
ad satisfaciendum etc., et unde vicecomes retornavit etc.

Placita apud Pikering tenta coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc., die Martis proximo
post festum exaltacionis Sancte Crucis anno supradicto.
Preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod exigi faceret [again the same list] [288]
de Comitatu in Comitatum quousque etc. ultagarentur si non com-
parerent, et si comparerent tunc eos caperet et salvo etc., ita quod haberet
corpora eorum hie ad hunc diem ad satisfaciendum domino Comiti de
redempcione sua pro transgressione venacionis unde coram prefatis
Justiciariis per forestarios, viridarios et alios ministros convicti sunt, et
vicecomes, scilicet Radulphus de Hastynges, retornavit quod virtute
hujus brevis post quam predicti [again the same list] [289] exacti fuerunt
primo in itinere foreste de Pikeryng et non comparuerunt, ad Comi-
tatum Eboracensem tentum die Lune proximo ante festum sancti
Gregorii* anno supradicto predicti Robertus de Chibourn et alii in brevi

Pleas held at Pickering on Monday, 31 March, 1338, before
Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury.
The offenders having been put in exigent in the present Eyre as the
custom is, the Sheriff is ordered further to put them in exigent from
County Court to County Court, according to law and custom, so that
they be outlawed if they do not appear, but if they do appear they are
to be produced here on Tuesday, 15 September, 1338.

Pleas held at Pickering on Tuesday, 15 September, 1338, before

Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury.

Ralph de Hastings, the Sheriff, appeared and made his return,

namely, that the offenders were put in exigent the first time in the Eyre

at Pickering and did not appear, the second time at the County Court

* This date is probably a misreading for Georgii.

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isto inferius nominati exacti fuerunt secundo secundum formam hujus
brevis et non comparuerunt, ad Comitatum. Eboracensem tentum die
Lune proximo post festum sancte Petronille anno predicto predicti
Robertus de Chibourn et alii in brevi isto inferius nominati exacti
fuerunt tercio secundum formam hujus brevis et non comparuerunt, ad
Comitatum Eboracensem tentum die Lune proximo post festum Trans-
lacionis sancti Thome marturis anno predicto predicti Robertus de
Chibourn et alii in brevi isto inferius nominati exacti fuerunt quarto et
non comparuerunt set manuceperunt [?] per Robertum Geges, ad
Comitatum Eboracensem tentum die Lune in festo Sancti Bartholomei
anno predicto Johannes de Metham, Robertus de Saltmersh, Henricus
de Fisshebourn, Henricus de Percy,* Willelmus Alius Rogeri de Pert,
Willelmus Alius Radulphi de Roston, Simon filius Alani de Scarde-
burgh, Radulphus de Yeland, Johannes de Mora, Herbertus de Yeland,
[289b] Adam dictus Proud Adam, Hugo de Eland, Willelmus frater
Rogeri filii Alani le Carter, Johannes filius Rogeri ad Crucem,
Reginaldus frater Willelmi filii Lygard, Johannes de Calveton, Willelmus
de Ergom capellanus, Willelmus filius Henrici et Johannes de Brigham
reddiderunt se prisone domini Regis quorum corpora coram vobis
habebo ad diem in brevi isto contentum secundum formam hujus
brevis, et ad eundem Comitatum predicti Robertus de Chibourn et
omnes alii in brevi isto inferius nominati exacti fuerunt quinto
secundum formam hujus brevis et non comparuerunt, ideo in judicio
utlagantur. Et predictus Johannes de Metham, Robertus Saltmersh,
Henricus de Fissheburn, Willelmus filius Rogeri de Pert, Willelmus

holden on Monday, 20 April, the third time at the County Court
holden on Monday, 1 June, and the fourth time at the County
Court holden on Monday, 6 July, on none of which occasions
did they appear, but on the fourth occasion John de Metham, Robert
de Saltmarsh, Henry de Fishbourn, Henry de Percy, William son of
Roger de Pert, William son of Ralph de Ruston, Simon son of Alan
de Scarborough, Ralph de Yeland, John de Moor, Herbert de Yeland,
Adam called Proud Adam, Hugh de Yeland, William brother of Roger
son of Alan le Carter, John son of Roger at Cross, Reginald brother of
William son of Ligard, John de Calveton, William de Argam chaplain,
William son of Henry, John de Brigham, undertook on the bail of Robert
Geges, to appear at the County Court to be held on Monday, 24 August,
on which day they appeared and surrendered, and the remainder
were put in exigent the fifth time and outlawed. Those who surrendered

* This is evidently inserted by mistake, as Henry de Percy had not been exacted.
For Henry de Fishburn see Vol. II., N.S., p. 79. He was then dead and his son
appeared.

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filius Radulphi de Roston, Simon filius Alani de Scardeburgh,
Radulphus de Yeland, Johannes de Mora, Herbertus de Yeland, Adam
dictus Proud Adam, Hugo de Eland, Willelmus frater Rogeri filii
Alani le Carter, Willelmus filius Rogeri le Carter,* Johannes filius
Rogeri ad Crucem, Reginaldus frater Willelmi filii Lygardi, Johannes
de Calveton, Willelmus de Ergom capellanus, Willelmus filius Henrici
et Johannes de Brigham qui se reddiderunt in custodia vicecomitis
modo veniunt coram Justiciariis et de transgressione venacionis con-
victi liberantur prisone, et postea redempti invenerunt manucaptores
quod amodo se bene gerent et in foresta predicta non forisfacient,
preterquam predicti Herbertus de Yeland et Radulphus de Yeland qui
manucapcionem aliquam invenire non curarunt, et ideo liberantur
prisone. Et nichilominus inquisitum est per omnes ministros istius
foreste et similiter per sacramentum aliorum proborum et legalium
hominum istius foreste que bona et catalla, terras et tenementa predicti
utlagati habuerunt in Comitatu isto die utlagarie predicte in ipsos pro-
mulgate, ad quorumcunque manus devenerint etc., et de valore
eorundem terrarum et tenementorum per annum, et de quo teneantur
in capite, et quis vel qui domino Comiti inde respondere debeant, et
qualiter etc scire faciant hie contra diem Mercurii proximum post festum
Sancti Michaelis, ad quem diem predicti jurati dicunt quod predicti
utlagati nulla habuerunt terras seu tenementa, bona seu catalla in Comi-
tatu isto die utlagarie predicte seu post, que seisiri possunt tanquam foris-
facta, tamen dicunt quod aliquando sunt latitantes in Comitatu isto et
alibi, ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod capiat eos ubicumque eos

now appear in the custody of the Sheriff, and being convicted of
poaching and sentenced to imprisonment were released on payment of
a fine and finding sureties, except Herbert de Yeland and Ralph de
Yeland, who did not care to find sureties and were imprisoned.
Furthermore, inquiry is to be made by the officers of the forest, and
other good leal men of the forest, as to what goods and chattels, lands
and tenements, the outlaws held in the county on the day when their
outlawry was proclaimed, to whosesoever hands they might come, as to
the yearly value of the lands and tenements, and of whom they are held
in chief, and who are responsible to the Earl for the same, and how,
and the result is to be made known on Wednesday, 30 September, 1338.
On which day the Jury say that the outlaws had not on the day when
the outlawry was proclaimed, or afterwards, any lands or tenements,
goods or chattels, in the county which could be seized as forfeited,
but they say that they are sometimes hiding in the country and else-
where, wherefore the sheriff is bidden to seize them wherever he may
* Not mentioned above.

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inveniri contigerit tam infra libertatem quam extra, et eos salvo
custodiat usque ad proximam assisam cum Justiciarii in partibus istis
venerint ad standum ibidem recto etc.

[290] Attornati recepti apud Pikeryng coram Ricardo de Wylughby,

Roberto de Hungerford et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis

itinerantibus in foresta Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de

Pikeryng die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Michaelis

anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii a conquestu viij0.

Frater Simon Fauconer, confrater Prioris Hospitalis Sancti Johannis

Jerusalem in Anglia venit et protulit breve domini Regis patens coram

Justiciariis hie in hec verba. Edwardus* dei gracia Rex Anglie,

Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis

ad quos presentes litere pervenerint salutem. Cum omnes et singuli

domus et fratres Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem, tam in Scocia

quam in Wallia et in Anglia dicioni dilecti nobis in Christo fratris

Leonardi de Tybertis Prioris Hospitalis predicti in Anglia sint subjecti

et ipsum Priorem disposicioni eorundem vacare oporteat, per quod ipse

variis negociis Hospitale predictum tangentibus prepeditus defensioni

sue in diversis placitis ipsum et Hospitale predictum in Anglia con-

tingentibus personaliter vacare non potest, prout sibi et eidem Hospitale

expediret, volentes eidem Priori graciam in hac parte facere specialem

concessimus ei quod frater Robertus Cort et frater Simon Fauconer,

chance to find them, within a liberty or without, and to keep them
securely, so as to produce them to stand their trial at the next assizes
when the Justices shall come into those parts.

Attornies received at Pickering before Richard de Willoughby,

Robert de Hungerford, and John de Hambury, on Monday,

6th October, 1334.

Brother Simon Falconer, one of the brethren of the Prior of the

Hospitallers in England, appears and produces the King's letters patent,

in which, after reciting that the House and brethren of the Hospitallers

in Scotland and Wales, as well as in England, were under the rule of

the Prior Leonard de Tybertis, who ought to attend thereto, so that he,

being prevented by several matters of business relating to the Hospital,

cannot appear personally to defend the legal proceedings also relating

to himself and the Hospital as he ought, the King, wishing to show

especial favour to the Prior, granted leave to Robert Cort and Simon

* See Rot. Pat. 7 Ed, III., pt. 2, m. 16, continued Rot. Pat. 10 Ed. III., pt. 2,
m. 17, when Philip de Thame was Prior.

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confrates ipsius Prions, quos idem Prior attornavit coram nobis loco
suo sub alternacione ad lucrandum vel perdendum in omnibus placitis
et querelis motis vel movendis pro ipso Priore vel contra ipsum et ad
libertates suas calumpniandas, persequendas et defendendas in quibus-
cumque Curiis Anglie, vel eorum alter quem presentem esse contigerit
loco ipsius Prions facere possint vel possit attornatos vel attornatum
quos vel quem voluerint vel voluerit in quibuscumque Curiis Anglie ad
omnia predicta placita et querelas persequenda et defendenda et ad
lucrandum vel perdendum in eisdem, necnon ad libertates suas calump-
niandas, persequendas et defendendas sicut predictum est. In cujus
rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes per biennium
duraturas. T. me ipso apud Wyndesore xxvij die Octobus anno regni
nostri septimo. Pretextu cujus brevis idem frater Simon ponit loco
ipsius Prioris Thomam [? Bret] vel Walterum de Trusseby [? Trusseley]
in omnibus placitis et querelis motis vel movendis pro predicto Priore
vel contra ipsum, necnon ad libertates ejusdem Prioris calumpnian-
das, persequendas et defendendas durante itinere istius foreste.

Priorissa de Roscedale ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel Laurencium
de Neuton* ....

Priorissa de Wykham ponit loco suo Thomam Bret f vel Laurencium
de Neuton ....

[290b] Priorissa de Yetingham ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel
Laurencium de Neuton ....

Matildis Bruys ponit loco suo Robertum Bruys ....

Petronilla de Kynthorp ponit loco suo Edmundum de Hastynges
juniorem . . . . et eciam ad serviendum pro ipsa in officio forestarii
de feodo in foresta de Pikeryng.

Thomas de Pikeryng ponit loco suo Robertum Bruys ....

Falconer, whom he has appointed as his attornies, to appear alternatively
before him in his place for gain or loss, in all pleas and complaints com-
menced or to be commenced on his behalf or against him, and to
claim, prosecute, and defend his liberties in all Courts in England, or for
either of them who may chance to be present to appoint any attorney
or attornies, whom they will, in the place of the Prior to prosecute and
defend for gain or loss, all the said pleas and complaints, and to claim,
prosecute, and defend his liberties. The letters patent were to last
two years, and were dated Windsor, 27th October, 1333.
[The appointment of attornies hardly needs translation.]

* Except that occasionally the words pro ipso vel contra ipsum are inserted and
occasionally omitted, the power of attorney follows the form first written.

t Rot. Pat. 6 Ed. III., pt. 3, m. 7, an exemption from sitting on juries was
granted to Thomas Brette, of Brompton.

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Rogerus de Midelton ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel Robertum
Playce ....

Radulphus de Bulmere ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel Johannem
filium Alani de Thorneton ....

Johannes de Melsa miles ponit loco suo Walterum de Trusseby ....

Willelmus Bruys ponit loco suo Robertum Bruys ....

Prior de Malton ponit loco suo Robertum Playce, Thomam de
Marton vel Galfridum Russel ....

Prior de Ellerton ponit loco suo Robertum Playce, Thomam de
Marton vel Galfridum Russel ....

Robertus Prior de Bridlington ponit loco suo Robertum Playce vel
Galfridum Russel ....

Robertus* de Aton ponit loco suo Robertum Playce vel Galfridum
Russel ....

[291] Abbas beate Marie Eboracensis ponit loco suo Thomam Bret
vel Robertum Playce ....

Abbas de Bella Landa ponit loco suo Walterum de Trusseby ....

Thomas Abbas de Whiteby ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel Gal-
fridum Russel ....

Walterus persona ecclesie de Middelton juxta Pikeryng ponit loco
suo Robertum Bruys de Farmanby ....

Alicia que fuit uxor Johannis Gower ponit loco suo Galfridum
Russel ....

Johannes de Shirbourn ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel
Robertum Playce ....

Ballivi et Communitas Burgi de Scardeburgh ponunt loco suo
Thomam Bret vel Laurencium de Neuton . . . ,

Johannes de Clifton ponit loco suo Walterum de Trusseby ....

Thomas Ughtred ponit loco suo Rogerum Longe vel Walterum de
Trusseby ....

Prior de Drax ponit loco suo Thomam Bret vel Robertum
Playce ....

Thomas de Bolleby ponit loco suo Nicholaum Gower ....

Willelmus Couper de Aslacby capellanus ponit loco suo Walterum
de Trusseby ....

[291b] Thomas Wake dominus de Lydel ponit loco suo Thomam
Bret vel Nicholaum de Repynghale ....

Decanus et Capitulum ecclesie beati Petri Eboracensis ponunt
loco suo Johannem de Brauncroft ....

* Sic in the Exchequer. The Coucher has a blank ; more probably the name
should be Gilbertus.

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Placita clamiorum de libertatibus et quietanciis apud Pikeryng

coram Ricardo de Wylughby, Roberto de Hungerford et

Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis ad itinerandum ad placita

foreste in foresta Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de Pikeryng

assignatis die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Michaelis

anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii a conquestu viij°.

Willelmus de Persay et Petronilla de Kynthorp clamant esse

forestarii in feodo in foresta de Pikeryng, et habere escapium Haie de

Blandeby per totum annum, et escapium de Dalby a Pascha usque

festum Sancti Michaelis, et cablicium per totam ballivam suam in

dominicis domini salvis estoveriis hominibus de Pikeryng et Neuton de

dominicis domini ad manerium domini de Pikeryng spectantibus,

excepto in Haia de Blandeby et dominicis de Weledale ; clamant

etiam habere siccam buscam ad terram prostratam, salvis estoveriis

homiriibus de Pikeryng et Neuton ut supra ; clamant eciam firmam

colligendum nuces in dominicis predictis, salvis estoveriis hominibus

de Pikeryng ut supra, excepta Haia de Blandeby et dominicis de

Weledale ; et clamant habere retallium et corticem et cooperones

[? cooperciones] de quercubus datis seu ad opus domini captis, et

clamant habere retropannagium in predictis dominicis, excepta

Haia de Blandeby et Weledale, et de omnibus aliis arboribus eodem

modo et non venditis. [292] Et predicta Petronilla in propria persona sua

pro se ipsa dicit quod ipsa et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo

non extat memoria fuerunt forestarii in feodo in communi cum

quodam Alano de Wrelton cujus statum idem Willelmus de Persay

Claims of liberties and quittances made at Pickering before
Richard de Willoughby, Robert de Hungerford, and John de
Hambury, on Monday, 6th October, 1334.
William de Percehay and Parnell de Kingthorpe claim to be
foresters in fee in Pickering Forest, and to have escapes in Blansby
Park throughout the whole year, and escapes in Dalby from Easter to
Michaelmas, and browsewood, drywood and nutgeld throughout their
whole bailiwick in the Earl's demesne, saving the estovers of the men of
Pickering and Newton in such of the demesnes as belong to the manor
of Pickering, except in Blansby Park and the demesne woods of Wheel-
dale ; and they claim to have the chips,* bark, and tree-tops of oaks and
other trees given or used by the Earl, but not sold ; and they claim after-
pannage in the demesnes, except in Blansby Park and Wheeldale. And
Parnell appears in her own person and says that she and all her ancestors
from ancient time were foresters in fee in common with one Alan de
* See Vol. II., N.S., p. 39, as to these words.

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modo habet, et post predictum Alanum cum predicto Willelmo,
reddendo inde et pro quadam terra quam ipsa in separali tenet,
domino Comiti et heredibus suis qui pro tempore fuerint xxs per
annum imperpetuum. Et ad firmam suam predictam faciendam a
tempore quo non extat memoria habuerunt escapium Haie de Blandeby
per totum annum et similiter escapium Lande de Dalleby a Pascha
usque festum Sancti Michaelis, scilicet pro quocunque averio prima et
secunda vice capto pro quolibet pede jd, warda tamen inde non facta ;
et similiter habuerunt caplicium per totam ballivam suam salvis
estoveriis etc., et similiter siccam buscam ad terram prostratam salvis
etc., necnon firmam colligendum nuces in dominicis predictis salvis
estoveriis etc., necnon retropannagium, retallium, corticem et cooper-
ones de quercubus datis seu ad opus domini captis et de omnibus aliis
arboribus eodem modo et non venditis, et hoc parata est verificare prout
Curia consideraverit.

Et similiter predictus Willelmus dicit quod ipse et similiter predictus
Alanus cujus statum ipse modo habet et omnes antecessores ipsius
Alani a tempore quo non extat memoria fuerunt forestarii in feodo et
tenuerunt forestariam predictam in communi cum predicta Petronilla,
reddendo inde et pro quadam terra quam tenet in separali, domino
Comiti et heredibus suis qui pro tempore fuerint xxs per annum
imperpetuum, et ad firmam suam predictam faciendam a tempore quo
non extat memoria habuerunt escapium Haie de Blandeby per totum

Wrelton, whose estate William de Percehay now holds, and after
Alan with William, paying for it and a parcel of land which she holds
in severalty the yearly rent of £1 to the Earl and his heirs for ever.
To make the rent from ancient time they had the escapes in Blansby
Park throughout the whole year, and in Dalby Laund from Easter to
Michaelmas, that is to say for each animal taken the first or second
time id a foot,* so long as they have not been impounded by the King's
forester ;f and likewise they had browsewood throughout the whole
of their bailiwick, saving the estovers, and likewise dry bushes felled to
the ground in the same demesnes, also saving the estovers, furthermore,
nutgeld, after-pannage, chips, bark and tops of oaks and all other trees
given away or used by the Earl but not sold. She prays an inquiry. Like-
wise William says that he, and likewise Alan, whose estate he now has,
and all Alan's ancestors from ancient time were foresters in fee and held
the forest in common with Parnell, paying the same rent as she, and
enjoying the same liberties. He also prays an inquiry

* See Vol. II., N.S., p. 4.

t This is the same phrase which created the difficulty at page 47, ante. I only
propound this as a conjecture of its meaning.

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annum et similiter escapium Lande de Dalleby a Pascha usque festum
Sancti Michaelis, scilicet pro quolibet averio prima et secunda vice
capto pro quolibet pede jd, warda tamen inde non facta, et similiter
habuerunt caplicium per totam ballivam suam salvis estoveriis etc.,
et similiter siccam buscam ad terram prostratam salvis estoveriis etc.,
necnon firmam colligendum nuces in dominicis predictis salvis esto-
veriis etc., necnon retropannagium, retallium, corticem et cooperones
de quercubus datis seu ad opus domini captis, et de omnibus aliis
arboribus eodem modo et non venditis, et hoc paratus est verificare
prout Curia etc. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per ministros ejusdem
foreste. Qui scilicet viridarii, regardatores et agistatores dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod eadem Petronilla et omnes antecessores sui a
tempore quo non extat memoria cum predicto Alano de Wrelton dum
vixit, fuerunt forestarii in feodo, et pro forestaria ilia et quadam alia
terra quam eadem Petronilla tenet in separali solverunt et solvet
domino Comiti nunc xxs annuatim, et ad firmam suam faciendam
habuerunt caplicium per totam ballivam suam in dominicis domini
salvis estoveriis hominibus de Pikeryng et Neuton de dominicis domini
ad manerium domini de Pikeryng spectantibus, excepto in Haia de
Blandeby et dominicis de Weledale, et eciam siccam buscam ad terram
prostratam salvis estoveriis hominibus predictis excepta Haia [292b] de
Blandeby et dominicis predictis, et eciam firmam colligendum nuces
in dominicis predictis salvis estoveriis hominibus predictis exceptis
tantum Haia de Blandeby et dominicis de Weledale ; et similiter
habuerunt retropannagium in dominicis predictis exceptis Haia
predicta et dominicis predictis. Et quoad escapium Haie de Blandeby
dicunt quod ab antiquo antequam Haia predicta clausa fuit, quicunque
forestarius seu wodewardus escapium in Haia predicta invenerit et
ceperit, proficuum illius escapii habuit et percepit tanquam pro

An inquiry is directed. The verderers, regarders, and agisters say,
upon their oath, that Parnell and all her ancestors from ancient time
were foresters in fee with Alan de Wrelton while he lived, and paid to
the Earl for her office and a parcel of land which she holds in severalty
the yearly rent of jQi. To make their rent they had browse-wood
throughout the whole bailiwick in the Earl's demesnes, saving the estovers
of the men of Pickering and Newton in such of the demesnes as belonged
to the manor of Pickering, except in Blansby Park and the demesnes
of Wheeldale : and with the like exceptions had drywood, nutgeld and
after-pannage in the demesnes. As to escapes in Blansby Park, they
say that of old, before the Park was enclosed, whatever forester or
woodward found an escape therein, and took his profit thereof, he took
it as wages for preserving the pasturage of the Park for the deer : but

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mercede sua custodiende pasture in Haia predicta pro feris istius
foreste ; set postquam eadem Haia inclusa fuit, eadem Petronilla nee
aliquis alius seu aliqui alii aliquod escapium inde habuerunt, licet ea
ceperint, seu aliquod proficuum ejusdem nisi tantum dominus. Et
quoad escapium Lande de Dalleby dicunt quod ab antiquo quicunque
forestarius seu wodewardus aliquod escapium in eadem Landa
invenisset proficuum illius escapii habuerunt, et postea ordinatus fuit
ibidem forestarius per dominum capiendo vadiasua, ita quod a tempore
illo quod est ante tempus memorie, omnia escapia in eadem landa
inventa si forestarius domini ea primo ceperit, tunc presentata fuerunt
in attachiamentis ejusdem foreste, et inde tunc dominus habuit pro-
ficuum. Et si predicti forestarii de feodo primo venerint et aliquod
escapium ibidem ceperint proficuum sibimet ipsis ceperunt et
habuerunt.

Et quoad clamium de retalliis, corticis [? cortice] et cooperonibus
habendis de quercubus et aliis arboribus quibuscumque dicunt iidem
ministri quod de omnibus quercubus per dominum prostratis ad opus
suum proprium, dominus si voluerit habere potest tarn retallium,
corticem et cooperones quam maeremium, tamen de hujusmodi quer-
cubus et aliis arboribus quibuscumque habent et habuerunt ab antiquo
quicquid remissum fuerit quod dominus habere noluerit de cortice,
cooperonibus seu retalliis post maheremium extractum, et de quercubus
datis seu aliis arboribus quibuscumque iidem forestarii a tempore quo
non extat memoria habuerunt retallium, corticem et cooperones et
inde pro voluntate sua libitum fecerunt, set dominus non vendet alicui

after the Park was enclosed, neither Parnell nor anyone else had any
escape, even though taken by them, and no one derived any profit
therefrom, except the Earl. As to escapes in Dalby Laund they
say that of old, whatever forester or woodward found any escape there,
he had the profit derived from it, but afterwards a forester was appointed
at fixed wages [?], so that from that time, which is before the time of
legal memory,* if the Earl's forester was the first to take any escapes
found in the Laund, they were presented at the Court of Attachments
of the forest and the Earl had the profit thereof. And if the foresters of
fee were the first to find and keep them they retained the profit to their
own use. As to the claim to have the chips, bark and tops of all trees, the
officers say that the Earl, if he please, can have the chips, barks, and
tops as well as the timber of all oaks and other trees felled for his own
use, yet the foresters in fee have and of old have had whatever was left
and not required by the Earl of the bark, tops, and chips from all such
oaks and other trees after the timber was drawn away. The foresters
* Then the coronation of Henry III.

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alii hujusmodi retallium, corticera nee cooperones. De quercubus
autem et aliis arboribus quibuscumque per dominum venditis nichil
habuerunt. Ideo quoad clamium habendi escapium Haie de
Blandeby, retallium, corticem et cooperones de quercubus captis ad
opus domini nichil capiat per clamium suum in hac parte, set sit in
misericordia pro falso clamio suo; et quoad clamium habendi escapium
Lande de Dalleby dictum est eidem Petronille quod expectet inde
judicium suum hie die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Gregorii
Pape; et quoad clamium habendi caplicium et siccam buscam ad
terram prostratam, firmam colligendum nuces et retropannagium con-
sideratum est quod eadem Petronilla eat inde sine die, salvo semper
jure etc.

Et quoad predictum Willelmum de Persay dicunt iidem ministri
quod quidam Rogerus de Wrelton, pater predicti Alani cujus heres
ipse est, qui termit forestariam predictam in communi cum predicta
Petronilla pro firma xxs et pro alia terra quam tenuit in separali de
antecessore ipsius Comitis [293] et ad firmam suam faciendam habuit
prout continetur in veredicto de predicta Petronilla et inde obiit
seisitus, predicto Alano de Wrelton filio suo infra etatem existente.
Post cujus mortem Thomas Comes Lancastrie seisire fecit forest-
ariam predictam quoad purpartem* que fuit predicti Rogeri, quod

also had from ancient time the chips, barks, and tops from the oaks and
other trees given away, and did what they pleased therewith, but the Earl
will not sell to anyone else this sort of chips, bark, and tree tops. They
never had anything of the oaks and other trees sold by the Earl.
Therefore their claim fails as to the escapes in Blansby Park, and the
chips, bark, and tree tops from the oaks used by the Earl.

Judgment on the claim to have escapes is postponed until Monday,
13 March, 1335. The claims to have browsewood, dry bushes
felled to the ground, nutgeld and after-pannage is allowed. As to
William de Percehay, the officers of the forest say that one Roger de
Wrelton, of whom Alan was son and heir, held the office of forester in
fee in common with Parnell at the same rent and enjoyed the same
liberties as she. After his death Thomas Earl of Lancaster seized
the office as to the purparty, which was Roger's. John de Bulmer per-
ceiving this went to the Earl and gave him to understand that the pur-
party of Roger belonged to him and no one else by inheritance, so
that the Earl in exchange for a house and a virgate of land which he
gave to John de Bulmer, obtained a release of the purparty and re-
tained it in his own hands.

* This suggests an origin for the dual number of foresters -namely, that the office
had descended to co-heiresses.

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percipiens quidam Johannes de Bulmere accessit ad predictum
Thomam Comitem dando ei intelligi purpartem illius forestarie jure
hereditario sibi competere et non alicui alii, per quod idem dominus
Thomas in escambio unius messuagii et unius virgate terre quam dedit
eidem Johanni pro purparte sua ejusdem forestarie retinuit purpartem
ejusdem forestarie in manu sua de predicto Johanne de Bulmere sibi
et heredibus suis remissa[m] et relaxata[m]. Qui quidem Thomas
postmodum purpartem ejusdem forestarie cum aliis pertinenciis suis
pro bono servicio suo dedit cuidam Johanni de Monemwe tenendam
tota vita sua, qui quidem Johannes virtute doni predicti purpartem pre.
dictam tenuit usque ad tempus quando castrum et Honor predicta
devenerunt ad manura domini Comitis nunc jure hereditario, et postea
idem Alanus accessit ad dictum Comitem pretendendo verificare viis
et modis quibus oporteret se a predicta purparte forestarie predicte
injuriose detineri per falsam suggestionem per predictum Johannem de
Bulmere predicto domino Thome Comiti nuper factam, per quod idem
dominus Comes nunc quesita inde veritate per omnes ballivos et
ministros ejusdem foreste et postmodum facta inde renunciacione per
predictum Johannem de Monemwe eidem Comiti de omni jure suo
quod habuit in eadem de mandato ipsius Comitis, idem dominus
Comes nunc retradidit eidem Alano purpartem forestarie predicte
tenendam ut de jure suo proprio. Qui quidem Alanus inde seisitus
et juribus predictis, inde postmodum feoffavit predictum Willelmum
de Persay tenendis sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum, virtute cujus
feoffamenti predictus Willelmus fuit seisitus et est de illis proficuis
tantummodo prout eadem Petronilla in purparte sua seisita est. Ideo
consideratum est quod idem Willelmus eat inde sine die, salvo semper
jure etc.

Afterwards Earl Thomas gave the purparty of the forestership to
John de Monmouth for his life, as a reward for his services, and the
latter held it until the time when the castle and honor came by right of
inheritance to the present Earl. Alan then went to the Earl alleging
that he was prepared duly to prove that the office had been unjustly
withheld from him in consequence of the false statements made by
John de Bulmer. The Earl having made inquiry into the truth of the
matter by his bailiffs and officers of the forest, and John de Monmouth
having renounced to the Earl all his rights to the office, the Earl re-
stored the purparty to Alan as his right : Alan being seised thereof
enfeoffed William de Percehay and his heirs for ever, by virtue whereof
he was seised of the profits derived therefrom to the same extent as
Parnell in her purparty.

Therefore the claim of William is allowed saving the Earl's rights.

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Et similiter quoad clamium habendi escapium Haie de Blandeby,
retallium, corticem et cooperones de quercubus captis ad opus domini
consideratum est quod idem Willelmus nichil capiat in hac parte, set
sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo. Et quoad clamium habendi
escapium Lande in Dalby dictum est eidem Willelmo quod expectet
inde judicium suum hie predicto die Lune proximo post festum sancti
Gregorii etc. Et super hoc predicta Petronilla ponit loco suo
Edmundum de Hastynges tam in loquela predicta quam ad faciendum
ea que officio forestarii pertinent durante itinere isto etc. Ad quem
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne
de Hambury justiciariis venerunt tam predictus Willelmus de Persay in
propria persona sua quam predicta Petronilla per attornatum suutn
predictum, et datus est eis dies hie die Lune proximo post mensem
Pasche ad audiendum inde judicium suum etc. Ad quem diem apud
Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury
Justiciariis venerunt tam predictus Willelmus de Persay in propria
persona sua quam predicta Petronilla per attornatum suum predictum,
et super hoc datus est eis dies hie die Martis proximo post tres
septimanas Sancti Michaelis de audiendo [293b] inde judicium suum.

Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby
et Johanne de Shardelowe venerunt tam predictus Willelmus de Persay
in propria persona sua quam predicta Petronilla per attornatum suum
predictum et super hoc datus est eis dies hie die Jovis proximo post
Octabas Purificacionis beate Marie de judicio suo inde audiendo
etc. Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefato Johanne de Hambury
venit Ricardus de la Pole [Here follows the appointment of Richard de
la Pole as a Justice in the same words as at page 71, the same omission
again occurring] [294] et tam predictus Willelmus de Persay in propria
persona sua quam predicta Petronilla per attornatum suum predictum
venerunt, et datus est eis dies hie etc. die Mercurii proximo post festum

Likewise his claim of having escapes in Blansby Park, and the chips,
bark and tops of oaks taken for the Earl's use is disallowed, and judg-
ment as to the claim of having escapes in Dalby Laund is deferred
until Monday, 13 March, 1335.

Moreover Parnell appoints Edmund de Hastings in her place, not
only in this cause as also to do all that appertains to the office of
forester during the Eyre. On the Monday, 13 March, 1335, William
de Percehay, in person, and Parnell, by her attorney, appeared before
Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury and judgment was again
postponed until Monday, 15 May, 1335, when it was again post-
poned until Tuesday, 31 October, 1335, and further postponed until
Thursday, 15 February, 1336. Richard de la Pole was then appointed

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Ascensionis Domini de judicio suo in hac parte audiendo. [Again we
have, as at page 73, a statement that the judges were absent and a
new date was fixed] [294b] Pretextu cujus brevis preceptum fuit vice-
comiti Eboracensi quod resumoniri faciat predictos Willelmum de Persay
et Petronillam quod sint coram prefatis Justiciariis, tribus vel duobus
eorum apud Pikeryng die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Andree
apostoli, ita quod placita et processus predicta tunc sint ibidem in
eodem statu in quo fuerunt apud Pikeryng predicto die Jovis proximo
post Octabas Purificacionis beate Marie anno regni domini Regis nunc
decimo quando atterminata fuerunt usque diem Mercurii proximum
post festum Ascensionis Domini proximum sequentem apud Pikeryng,
ad quem diem placita et processus predicta remanserunt sine die per
absenciam tam predictorum Johannis de Hambury et Ricardi de la
Pole quam predictorum Ricardi de Wylughby et Roberti de Hungerford
Justiciariorum etc. alibi de mandato domini Regis tunc existencium-
Ad quem diem Lune proximum post festum Sancti Andree apostoli
apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de
Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt predicti Petronilla per attornatum
suum predictum et Willelmus de Persay in propria persona sua per
breve domini Regis sub testimonio predicti Ricardi de Wylughby prout
etc. resumoniti etc. et deinde datus est eis dies usque diem Lune in
secunda septimana quadragesime de audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad
quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt predicta Petronilla et
Willelmus de Persay et deinde datus est eis dies usque diem Lune
proximum post festum Sancti Mathei apostoli de audiendo inde judicio
suo. Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt predicti
Petronilla et Willelmus et deinde datus est eis dies usque diem Lune
proximum post festum Dominice in Ramis Palmarum apud Pikeryng de
audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram

a Justice, and judgment was postponed until Wednesday, 22 May, 1336.
The Eyre having abated, but being revived by fresh writ, William de
Persay and Parnell were summoned to appear on Monday, 2 December,

1336, when judgment was again postponed to Monday, 17 March,

1337, and afterwards to Monday, 22 September, 1337, and again
to Monday, 31 March, 1338. Judgment at length was given that
inasmuch as it appeared by the verdict of the officers of the forest
that of old whatever forester or woodward found an escape in Dalby
Laund, he kept the profit derived therefrom, so that afterwards the
Lord of the Forest for the time being ordained that if the forester
which he or his heirs appointed in the Laund found an escape there

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prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc.
venerunt predicti Petronilla et Willelmus, et quia compertum est per
veredictum ministrorum predictorum quoad escapium Lande de Dalby
quod quicunque forestarius seu wodewardus ab antiquo qui aliquod
escapium in eadem Landa invenerint, proficuum illius escapii habuerunt
[sic], ita quod postmodum per dominum ejusdem foreste qui pro
tempore fuerit ordinatum fuit quod si forestarius per ipsum dominum
ejusdem foreste seu heredes suos in eadem Landa constitutus aliquod
escapium invenerit priusquam forestarii feodi illud invenerant, hujus-
modi escapia forent presentata ad attachiamenta foreste et dominus
tunc habuit proficuum eorundem, et si forestarii de feodo primo
invenerint hujusmodi escapia ipsi forestarii tunc ea habuerunt. Ita
quod iidem Petronilla et Willelmus seu aliqui alii antecessorum
suorum nunquam habuerunt [295] escapium Lande predicte modo quo
clamant. Ideo consideratum est quod predicti Petronilla et Willelmus
nichil capiunt in hac parte, set sint in misericordia pro falso clamio suo.
Postea venerunt predicti Petronilla et Willelmus et pecierunt quod
possint admitti ad finem faciendum cum domino pro clamio suo in
hac parte emendando et de novo faciendo, et admittuntur per dimidiam
marcam per plegium Henrici de Kelk et Radulphi de Morton.

Abbas de Rievalle* clamat in maneriis suis de Kykemarreys, Lound,
Neuestede et Loftmarreys cum pertinenciis suis domos et bercarias
edificare et terram in predictis maneriis pro voluntate sua in culturam
redigere et excercere, et quod nullus minister foreste aut alius
forestarius se quicquam in maneriis predictis intromittat, excepta
tantum de venacione, preter ipsum Abbatem et ministros suos : et
similiter quod agistet pro voluntate sua in maneriis predictis.

before the foresters of fee, it was presented at the Attachment Court
and the lord derived the profit, and if the foresters of fee found it first
they had the profit. So that William de Percehay and Parnell have
failed to prove their claim, and it is disallowed. The latter afterwards
appear and pray to be allowed to pay a composition for amending their
claim and their prayer is granted. Fine 6s 8d. Sureties Henry de
Kelk and Robert de Morton.

The Abbot of Rievaulx claims the right of building houses and
sheepfolds and of bringing land into cultivation within the manors of
Kekke Marishes, Lund, Newstead, and Loft Marishes ; and that no
forester or other officer of the forest, but only the Abbot and his
officers, has any right to intermeddle therewith, except only with

* There are two entries relating to this. The later one is exemplified in Rot. Pat.
43 Edw. III., pi. I, m. 33. The differences are only slight. The extract from the
Patent Roll is printed in the Suttees Society, Vol. 83, p. 415.

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Et dicit quod dominus Henricus,* Alius Imperatricis, quondam Rex
Anglie, progenitor dooiini Regis nunc, dedit et carta sua confirmavit
Deo et Sancte Marie et ecclesie sue de Rievalle et monachis ibidem
Deo servientibus pro a-nima gloriosi Regis Henrici, avi sui, et pro anima
patris sui et matris sue et fratrum suorum in liberam, puram et
perpetuam elemosinam totum vastum suum et totam pasturam
subtus Pikeryng cum pertinenciis suis ; in quo quidem vasto maneria
predicta modo situata sunt, in pratis et pasturis, in aquis et piscariis et
molendinis, et in omnibus aliis rebus per certas metas in eadem carta
contentas ; concessit eciam eis quod infra ipsas divisas domos et
bercarias edificent et terram colant et excerceant per totum sicut eis
placuerit, et prohibuit ne aliquis infra predictas metas cum averiis intrare
vel turbam fodere vel in aliqua re se intromittere nullo modo presumeret
sine voluntate et licencia eorum super forisfacturam suam. Unde dicit
quod virtute carte predicte ipse et omnes Abbates loci predicti pre-
decessores sui a tempore donacionis et confirmacionis [? carte] predicte
seisiti fuerunt ad domos et bercarias ibidem edificare et terram suam
ibidem excolere et excercere pro voluntate sua ; et virtute carte predicte
ipse et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti, predecessores etc., semper
hucusque a tempore predicto usi sunt predicta libertate, quod
nullus minister foreste de Pikeryng aut alius forestarius quicunque
se quicquam in maneriis predictis intromittant, preter ipsum

regard to game ; and likewise claims the right of agisting. He pleads
that Henry, son of the Empress Maud, granted in frankalmoign to
the Church and monks of Rievaulx, for the souls of his grandfather
Henry I., and of his father, mother and brothers, the whole waste and
pasturage below Pickering, in which waste the said manors are now
situated, together with the meadows, pastures, waters, fisheries and mills,
according to the boundaries specified in the deed of gift. He also
granted to them the right within these boundaries of building houses
and sheepfolds and bringing land into cultivation at their pleasure, and
he forbade any one entering there with beasts, or cutting turves, or
intermeddling in any manner without license on penalty of forfeiture.
Wherefore the Abbot claims that he and his predecessors have ever, from
the date of the gift, been seised of the right of building houses and sheep-
folds and bringing land into cultivation at their pleasure. Likewise,
in virtue of this deed, he and his predecessors have always hitherto
enjoyed this liberty, that no forester or other officer of the forest of
Pickering, but only the Abbot and his officers, ever intermeddles with
the manors except only with regard to game, when there happens to be
found dead or caught any hart, hind, buck, doe or roedeer within
* Henry II.

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Abbatem et ministros suos excepto tantum de venacione, *scilicet cum
contigerit aliquem cervum, bissam, damum, damam vel capriolum in
predicto vasto mortuum inveniri vel capi, quod extunc forestarii et
ministri foreste predicte ibidem venient ad faciendum inde quod
secundum assisam fuerit faciendum.*

Et similiter dicit quod virtute carte predicte ubi dicitur quod hec
omnia optineant in liberam elemosinam, bene et in pace, honorifice,
integre et plenarie, sicut Rex Henricus, avus ipsius, ea tenuit in
dominico suo die quo etc., libere et quiete de omni terreno servicio, et
quod nullus infra metas predictas cum averiis suis intrare vel turbam
fodere vel in aliquo se intromittere presumeret sine voluntate etc., qui
quidem Rex Henricus, avus etc., tempore quo vastum predictum in suis
metis extiterat, tanquam capitalis dominus in eodem marisco agistare
poterit pro voluntate sua absque alicujus [295 b] calumpnia, cujus statum
inde ipse ut dicitur habet, ipse et omnes Abbates loci predicti, predeces-
sores etc., semper a tempore concessionis predicte etc., absque aliqua inter-
rupcione averia quecunque in maneriis predictis infra vastum predictum
hucusque agistavit, prout viis et modis quibus Curia consideraverit
paratus est verificare ; petit juxta donacionem et concessionem
predictas et similiter secundum quod ipse et predecessores sui usi
fuerint in hac parte quod clamium suum ei in hac parte allocatur.
Et quia videtur Justiciariis quod expediens est et necesse ad
inquirendum per ministros istius foreste, si idem Abbas qui nunc est et
similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti, predecessores Abbatis predicti,

the waste, upon which the foresters and officers of the forest may
enter to do what ought to be done according to the assize of the
forest. Likewise he claims, in virtue of the words in the deed that
say that they are to enjoy the rights in frankalmoign, well, peace-
ably, honestly, wholly and fully, as King Henry I. held them in
demesne on his deathbed, free and quit of all lay service, and no one was
to presume to enter within their boundaries with his beasts, or to cut
turves, or to intermeddle in any manner without leave ; and since King
Henry I., as the chief lord, could agist at will within the marsh without
adverse claim by any one, whose estate, as is aforesaid, the Abbot
holds, the Abbot and his predecessors have always hitherto, from the
date of the gift, agisted without interruption whatever cattle they please
in the manors within the waste. All these claims he is ready to prove
as the Court may adjudge, and he prays that his claims may be allowed
in accordance with the gift and the manner in which the rights have
been exercised. The Justices consider that an inquiry by the officers
of the forest is necessary and expedient as to whether the Abbot and
* The words between asterisks do not occur in the Patent Rolls.

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semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicte libertatibus predictis usi
fuerint necne, ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per predictos ministros. Qui
scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ejusdem foreste qui ad hoc
jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predictus Abbas
qui nunc est et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti, predecessores
ipsius Abbatis, semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicte usi sunt
hujusmodi libertate ac domos [et] bercarias edificare in maneriis suis
predictis et terrain suam ibidem excercere et in culturam redigere prout
superius clamat absque alicujus calumpnia eis inde facienda. Et quoad
hoc quod nullus minister foreste aut alius forestarius se quicquam in
maneriis predictis intromittat, excepto tantum de venacione domini,
preter ipsum Abbatem et ministros suos, dicunt iidem ministri quod
omnes ministri foreste predicte tam forestarii quam alii a tempore quo
non extat memoria, semper intromiserunt se in marisco predicto in quo
maneria predicta modo situata sunt de omnibus que ad venacionem
spectant tam de leporibus captis quam de canibus ipsius Abbatis
quolibet tercio anno secundum assisam foreste expeditandis. Dicunt
similiter iidem ministri quoad hoc quod idem Abbas clamat agistare in
maneriis predictis pro voluntate sua, omnes Abbates predecessores
Abbatis qui nunc est et similiter Abbas qui nunc est semper virtute
carte predicte a tempore quo non extat memoria usi fuerunt agistare
in maneriis predictis pro voluntate sua absque alicujus calumpnia usque
jam xxviij annis elapsis quod Radulphus de Hastynges miles, nunc
Custos castri et foreste predictorum, tempore suo et ante ipsum

his predecessors have always, from the date of the deed of gift,
enjoyed these liberties or not. An inquiry is directed. The foresters,
verderers, and regarders, sworn and charged, say upon their oaths, as
to the first claim, that the Abbot and his predecessors have always,
from the date of the deed of gift, enjoyed the liberty of building
houses and sheepfolds and bringing land into cultivation within the
said manors without any adverse claim made by any one, and as to no
forester or other officer of the forest, but only the Abbot and his
officers, intermeddling with the manors, except only with regard to
game, they say that all the officers of the forest, as well foresters as
others, have always from ancient time intermeddled with the marsh in
which the manors are situated, with regard to all things that relate to
hunting, as well the catching of hares as the lawing of the Abbot's
dogs every third year according to the assize of the forest.

They likewise say, as to the Abbot's claim to agist at will in the
said manors, that the Abbot and his predecessors, in virtue of the
deed of gift, have from ancient time been wont to agist at will in the
manors without adverse claim made by any one until twenty-eight

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Radulphum quidam Johannes de Kilvyngton, nuper Custos castri et
foreste predictorum tempore quo castrum et foresta predicta in manu
domini E., quondam Regis Anglie, patris domini Regis nunc, post
mortem Thome quondam Comitis Lancastrie, nuper fratris domini
Comitis nunc, extiterant, et ante ipsum Johannem de Kilvyngton
quidam Johannes de Dalton, tunc Custos castri et foreste predictorum,
tempore dicti Thome nuper Comitis Lancastrie, tunc domini eorundem
castri et foreste, temporibus suis dictum Abbatem qui nunc est de
hujusmodi agistamento ibidem faciendo impediverunt. Dicunt tamen
quod idem Abbas ad hoc non habito respectu in eisdem maneriis
nichilominus semper et continue agistavit et proficuum agistamenti
cepit, set de causa ignoravit [? ignorant] ; requisiti eciam ministri
predicti si idem Abbas seu alius Abbas, predecessor suus, aliquo alio
tempore fuerint impediti, dicunt quod ignorant. Ideo [296] considera-
tum est quod quoad domos et bercarias edificare et terram in maneriis
predictis in culturam redigere prout superius clamat, quod idem Abbas
et omnes successores sui ea imperpetuum habeant et gaudeant, et
quoad residuum clamii sui datus est ei dies hie die Lune proximo post
festum Sancti Gregorii Pape de audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad quern
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo et Johanne Justiciariis
predictus Abbas solempniter vocatus non venit de judicio suo audiendo
prout etc., et super hoc venit quidam frater Willelmus Langeton* et

years ago [i.e., about 1306] John de Dalton, keeper of the castle and
forest in the time of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, and after him John de
Kilvington, keeper whilst the castle and forest were in the hands of
Edward II. after the death of Earl Thomas, and after him Sir Ralph
de Hastings, the present keeper, obstructed the Abbot whilst making any
such agistment. They say, nevertheless, that the Abbot not regarding this
obstruction, continually agists and takes the profits of the agistment,
but for what reason they know not. When asked whether the present
Abbot and any predecessor of him was ever obstructed at any other
time they say that they do not know. Judgment is given that the Abbot
and his successors may enjoy for ever the right claimed of building
houses and sheepfolds and bringing land into cultivation within the
manors.

Judgment on the rest of the claim is adjourned until Monday, 13th
March, 1335. On which day the Abbot is solemnly summoned to
hear judgment at Pickering, before the Justices Richard de Willoughby
and John de Hanbury, and does not appear, but upon this brother
William de Langton appears, and says that he has been lately conse-

* This clears up a doubt referred to in the Surtees Society, Vol. 83, Intro-
duction, p. c.

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dicit quod ipse est Abbas Rievalle de novo creatus, et predictus
Abbas qui clamia predicta in itinere isto posuit, post diem predictum
sibi datum obiit, et petit quod ipse per hoc in hac parte non
prejudicietur.* Et super hoc inquisita inde veritate per forestarios,
viridarios et regardatores ejusdem foreste compertum est per eosdem
quod predictus Abbas ut predictum est obiit, ideo nichil ulterius de eo
etc., et predictus Abbas qui nunc est, statim posuit clamia sua hie in
Curia ut patet alibi.

Robertus Lambsone clamat esse quietus de pannagio porcorum
suorum in Foulwode, Haibourn, Dernclif et Parva Clif infra limites
foreste tempore pannagii per annum, et dicit quod ipse et omnes ante-
cessors sui a tempore quo non extat memoria racione terrarum et
tenementorum suorum que habet in Brunston, que sunt francum
feodum, quieti fuerunt de pannagio tempore pannagii ut pertinenti ad
terras et tenementa sua predicta, et hoc paratus est verificare prout
Curia etc.

Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per 1ministros ejusdem foreste. Qui
scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod idem Robertus et omnes antecessores sui a
tempore quo non extat memoria racione terrarum et tenementorum
suorum predictorum quieti fuerunt de pannagio porcorum suorum
tempore pannagii tanquam pertinenti ad tenementa sua predicta. Ideo
consideratum est quod idem Robertus quietus sit de pannagio predicto,
salvo semper jure etc.

crated Abbot of Rievaulx, and that the Abbot who made the claims
in the eyre has died since the time when he was directed to appear on
this day. He prays that he may not suffer any prejudice in conse-
quence of this. Inquiry being made as to the truth of this by the
foresters, verderers, and regarders the Abbot is found to have died, as
had been stated, and proceedings against him are stayed. The present
Abbot immediately made his claim in Court, as appears elsewhere.!

Robert Lambson claims to be quit of pannage for his pigs in Ful-
wood, Hayburn, Derncliff, and Little Cliff, within the forest, during
the mast season, and he pleads that, by virtue of the lands of frank
fee tenure which he holds in Burniston, he and his ancestors have been
from ancient time quit of pannage during the mast season. This he
is ready to prove.

Inquiry is directed, and it is found that Robert and his ancestors
have, by reason of their tenure of the said lands, and as appurtenant to
the same, from ancient time been quit of pannage during the mast

* i.e. — That the claims may not abate in consequence of the Abbot's death,
t i.e., at p. 133. post.

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Priorissa de Wycham clamat pro se et tenentibus suis in Wycham et
Roston habere et capere housebote et haibote in boscis de North-
cahevedes et Berlagh secundum assisam foreste, et in eisdem boscis
habere communam ad omnimoda animalia, exceptis capris, pro se et
tenentibus suis de Wycham et Roston in moris et vastis adjacentibus,
videlicet, de Erlessyk versus boriam, et similiter clamat in boscis suis
de Wycham et Roston habere et capere housebote et haibote pro se et
tenentibus suis de Wycham et Roston secundum assisam foreste, et
eciam in eisdem boscis habere wodewardum secundum assisam foreste,
et dicit quod ipsa et omnes antecessores, loci predicti predecessores etc.
[? Priorisse], a tempore quo non extat memoria tanquam pertinencia ad
terras et tenementa que tenent in predictis villatis de Wycham et Roston
habere consueverunt et capere housebote et haibote in predictis boscis
de Northcahevedes et Berlagh secundum assisam foreste, et similiter
habere communam ad omnimoda animalia sua, exceptis capris etc., pro
se et tenentibus suis in predictis moris et vastis [296b] adjacentibus,
videlicet de Erllessyk versus boriam, et quod ipsa racione terrarum et
tenementorum suorum que tenet in predictis villatis de Wicham et
Roston habere et capere debet housebote et haibote pro se et tenentibus
suis in boscis suis, videlicet de Wycham et Roston, secundum assisam

season. Judgment is given that he be quit of pannage, without preju-
dice, etc.

The Prioress of Wykeham claims for herself and her tenants in
Wykeham and Ruston to receive and take housebote and hedgebote
in the woods of North Cave heads and Barley,* according to the
assize of the forest, and common of pasture for all animals except goats
in the same woods and the wastes and moors adjoining, that is to say,
northwards from Yarlesike, and she likewise claims for herself and her
tenants of Wykeham and Ruston the right of taking housebote and
hedgebote in her woods of Wykeham and Ruston, according to the
assize of the forest, and also the right of having a woodward in the
same woods. She pleads that she and all former Prioresses have
always from ancient time had, as appurtenant to the lands which she
holds in the townships of Wykeham and Ruston, the rights of taking
housebote and hedgebote in the woods of North Cave heads and
Barley, according to the assize of the forest, and of common of pasture
for all animals except goats in the same woods and the wastes and
moors adjoining, that is to say, northwards from Yarlesike, and by
reason of her tenure of lands in Wykeham and Ruston she ought to
have and receive for herself and her tenants housebote and hedgebote
in her woods of Wykeham and Ruston, according to the assize of the
* ? Barley Carr, N. of Hipperley Beck.

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foreste, et habere in eisdem boscis wodewardum suum secundum
assisam foreste, unde dicit quod ipsa et omnes Priorisse loci predicti,
predecessores sui, a tempore quo non extat memoria semper use sunt
libertatibus predictis absque aliqua interrupcione, et hoc parata est
verificare per ministros foreste prout Curia consideraverit etc., et petit
quod clamia sua predicta ei allocentur. Et quia videtur Justiciariis
quod expediens est et necesse ad inquirendum qualiter Priorissa
predicta et predecessores sue super possessione libertatum use sunt, prius-
quam ad allocacionem earum procedatur, inquiratur inde Veritas per
ministros foreste. Qui super hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod predicta Priorissa et predecessores sue unquam
[? nunquam] in aliquo tempore pro se et tenentibus suis habuerunt seu
ceperunt housebote et haibote in predictis boscis de Northcahevedes et
Berlagh prout superius clamat, set dicunt quod predicta Priorissa et
tenentes sui habent communam pasture ad omnimoda animalia sua,
exceptis capris, pro se et tenentibus suis de Wycham et Roston in
predictis boscis de Northcahevedes et Berlagh et in omnibus moris et
boscis adjacentibus, videlicet a loco qui dicitur le Erlesyk versus
boriam, et omnes Priorisse loci predicti, predecessores sue, et tenentes
sui predicti a tempore quo non extat memoria semper et sine interrup-
cione eadem communa prout in clamio suo continetur use sunt et
gavise. Dicunt eciam quod eadem Priorissa et predecessores sue de
certis [? ceteris] libertatibus in clamiis suis contentis a tempore quo
non extat memoria semper et sine interrupcione use sunt et gavise

forest, and to have a woodward, according to the assize of the forest.
She is ready to prove that she and her predecessors have exercised
these rights from ancient time without interruption, and prays
that her claims may be allowed. The Justices consider that
before allowing her claims an inquiry should be made as to
how the Prioress and her predecessors have exercised their
rights. An inquiry is therefore directed, and it is found that the
Prioress and her predecessors never at any time had or received for
themselves and their tenants housebote and hedgebote, as she claims
above, in the woods of North Cave heads and Barley, but that she has
for herself and her tenants of Wykeham and Ruston common of
pasture for all animals except goats in the same woods, and the moors
and woods adjoining, northwards from Yarlesike, and all former
Prioresses of that place and their said tenants have used and enjoyed
the same right of common so claimed from ancient time without
interruption.

Further, that the Prioress and her predecessors have ever from
ancient time used and enjoyed without interruption the rest of the

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*tanquam pertinentibus ad liberum tenementum suum in eisdem villis.
Ideo consideratum est quod quoad clamium suum habendi housebote
in predictis boscis de Northcahevedes et Berlagh nichil capiat in hac
parte, set sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo ; et quoad communam
pasture in predictis boscis de Northcahevedes et Berlagh et in
omnibus moris et vastis de Erlesyk versus boriam pro se et tenentibus
suis de Wycham et Roston, et eciam quoad residuum libertatum
superius contentarum in dicto clamio etc., habeat et retineat sibi et
successoribus suis imperpetuum, salvo semper jure etc.

Gilbertus de Atonf clamat tenere boscum suum de Troucedale
pertinentem ad manerium suum de Brumpton extra regardum foreste,
videlicet ilium boscum qui est ex parte boriali de Troucedale per certas
divisas a loco qui dicitur Braythwayt versus occidentem et sic inde in
longum per rivulum de Troucedale sicut idem rivulus currit versus
orientem usque ad quendam sikettum qui cadit in eundem rivulum
descendendo a quodam fonte qui dicitur Apiltrekeld, et inde per
predictum sikettum ascendendo usque ad eundem fontem, et a predicto
fonte qui dicitur Apiltrekeld ascendendo per quandam obliquam
semitam usque ad locum qui dicitur Hevedegatebrowe et inde per
cilium bosci [297] ascendendo adhuc in obliquo versus orientem in
parte usque ad quendam locum qui dicitur le Birk et sic de eodem loco
ascendendo per quandam semitam que tendit usque ad orientalem
finem fossati de Blakhous, et inde per dictum fossatum sicut tendit

rights so claimed as appurtenant to their free tenement in the same
townships.

Judgment is given that the Prioress take nothing by her claim of
having housebote in the woods of North Cave heads and Barley, but
be amerced for making a false claim. All the residue of her claims
are allowed.

Gilbert de Ayton claims to hold his wood to the north of Troutsdale
appurtenant to his manor of Brompton, as outside the regard, namely,
from Braithwaite on the west, down Troutsdale beck towards the east to
its junction with a rill flowing from a spring called Appletreekeld, up
the rill to the spring, from the spring uphill along a slanting path
to Headgate brow, thence along the brow of the wood, still uphill,
obliquely towards the east to a place called the Birk, thence uphill by
a path which leads to the east end of Blackhouse dike, thence along
the dike from east to west to a path lying to the south of Brown

* In the Duchy Coucher, though not in the Exchequer, these words precede
tanquam, Dicunt eciam quod eadem Priorissa. Above them is written in another
hand va-cat.

t This claim is exemplified in Rot. Pat. 36 Ed. III., pt. 2, m. 38.

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directe ab oriente in locum versus occidentem usque ad semitam
quendam jacentem ex parte australi de Brounhowes, et sic inde per
eandem semitam descendendo, sicut dicit, usque ad cilium de
Goderikgill, et inde per sikettum descendendo per medium de
Goderikgill usque ad Bray th way t ubi idem torrens cadit inTroucedalebek;
et fugare ad lepores et vulpes, catos et tessones in Brumpton, scilicet
infra les Acredikes, et habere capras suas depascentes in moris suis et
boscis de Howetonboscel, infra coopertum et extra, omnibus anni
temporibus, et clamat eradicare brueram et feugeram in mora et bosco
de Howeton, et eciam fodere turbas in eadem mora et eas pro libito
suo vendere et dare et cariare extra forestam et infra, et clamat agistare
in Howeton et proficuum agistamenti inde percipere pro libito suo, et
clamat habere wodewardum in bosco suo proprio infra forestam
predictam, videlicet in Brumpton, et clamat habere wodewardum in
bosco suo proprio infra forestam predictam, videlicet in Howeton. Et
dicit quod quoad tenere boscum suum in Troucedale extra regardum
per divisas predictas et fugare ad lepores, catos et tessones in Brumpton,
scilicet infra les Acredikes, ipse et omnes antecessores sui tenentes
manerii de Brumpton semper a tempore quo non extat memoria usi
sunt tenendo boscum predictum etc., per divisas predictas extra
regardum etc., et similiter fugare ad lepores, vulpes, catos et tessones in
Brumpton infra les Acredikes. Et quoad habere capras suas
depascentes etc., et eradicare brueram et fugeram et turbas fodere etc.,
et similiter agistare etc., dicit quod dominus Rex H. secundus, quondam

Hows, thence along that path downhill to the brow of Goodrickegill,
thence down the rill through the gill to Braithwaite where it falls into
Troutsdale beck.

He also claims the right to hunt hare, fox, wild cat and badger
within the Acredikes of Brompton, and to pasture goats in the moors
and woods of Hutton Bushel, within the covert and without, at all
times of the year. Further he claims the right of uprooting heather and
bracken in the moor and wood of Hutton Bushel, digging turves there,
and at pleasure selling, giving and carrying them away, within the
forest and without. He claims the right to agist in Hutton Bushel
and to keep the profit derived therefrom for himself; he claims
a woodward in each of his own woods of Brompton and Hutton
Bushel.

He pleads that he and his ancestors holding the manor of
Brompton have ever from ancient time been accustomed to hold
the wood of Troutsdale between the boundaries above set out, outside
the regard, and to hunt hare, fox, wild cat, and badger within the
Acredikes.

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Rex Anglie, progenitor domini Regis nunc, dedit et concessit per cartam
suam cuidam Reginaldo Belet, antecessori ipsius Gilberti, cujus statum
ipse modo habet, per centum et decern solidos per annum undecim
carucate [sic] terre et unam bovatam in Aton et Prestona et tresdecim
bovatas terre in Ebreston, que modo sunt maneria de Howeton et Aton,
et precepit ut bene, honorifice et libere teneret cum socha etc., et cum
omnibus consuetudinibus suis sicut ipse melius tenebat dum fuerunt in
manu sua ; virtute cujus carte idem Reginaldus seisitus fuit de hujus-
modi proficuis in clamiis suis contentis. Et ipse similiter et omnes
antecessores sui post predictum Reginaldum tenentes maneria predicta
semper et continue virtute carte predicte de eisdem seisiti fuerunt et
adhuc est, et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros foreste prout
Curia etc. in bosco suo etc. Et quoad habere wodewardum etc. in
bosco apud Aton, et habere wodewardum etc. in bosco suo apud
Brampton et similiter wodewardum in bosco suo apud Howeton
dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non
extat memoria usi sunt habere wodewardos in boscis suis predictis, et
hoc paratus est verificare prout Curia etc., et petit quod clamia sua
predicta ei in hac parte allocentur. Et quia videtur Justiciariis quod
expediens [297b] est et necesse per ministros foreste inquirere qualiter
idem Gilbertus et antecessores sui libertatibus illis in clamiis suis
contentis usi sunt et gavisi, ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem.
Qui jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod idem
Gilbertus et omnes antecessores sui semper a tempore quo non extat

He pleads further, that Henry II. granted by deed to one Reginald
Belet, his ancestor, whose estate he now holds, for the yearly sum of
^5 10s, eleven carucates of land and one oxgang in Ayton and
Preston, and thirteen oxgangs in Ebberston, which now comprise the
manors of Hutton Bushel and Ayton, to be held freely with full
jurisdiction and with all customs as the King held it when it was in his
hands. By virtue of which deed Reginald was seised of the rights
already claimed of pasturing goats, uprooting heather and bracken,
digging turves and agisting, and in like manner he and all his ancestors
after Reginald holding the same manor, have been seised of the same
rights by virtue of the grant. This he is ready to prove. He is
also ready to prove that he and his ancestors have ever from ancient
time had the two woodwards. He prays that his claims may be allowed.

As the Justices consider that it is expedient that an inquiry
be made by the officers of the forest how Gilbert and his ancestors
have enjoyed the rights so claimed, an inquiry is directed. It is
found that Gilbert and his ancestors ever from ancient time held
Troutsdale Wood appurtenant to the manor of Brompton as out-

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memoria tenuerunt boscum de Troucedale pertinentem ad manerium
suum de Brumpton extra regardum foreste, videlicet ilium boscum qui
est ex parte boriali de Troucedale qui dicker Braithwayt versus
occidentem in longum per rivulum de Troucedale sicut idem rivulus
currit versus orientem usque ad quendam sikettum qui cadit in
eundum rivulum descendendo a quodam fonte qui dicitur Apiltrekeld,
et inde per sikettum predictum ascendendo usque ad fontem predictum,
et a predicto fonte ascendendo directe usque Blachousenese, et deinde
transcendendo cilium usque ad quendam lapidem ex opposito le Birk
inter le Birk et Blachousenese, et deinde per quandam semitam rectam
usque ad orientalem partem de Blachousdyk, et deinde per predictum
fossatum sicut tendit directe ab oriente in locum occidentem versus
usque ad quandam semitam jacentem ex parte australi de Broun-
howes, et sic inde per eandem semitam descendendo sicut ducit ad
cilium de Goderikgill, et inde per sikettum descendendo per medium
de Goderikgill usque ad Braithwayt ubi idem torrens cadit in
Troucedalebek, et non a predicto fonte de Apiltrekeld per quandam
obliquam semitam usque ad locum qui dicitur Hevedgatebrowe et inde
per cilium bosci ascendendo adhuc in obliquo versus orientem usque
ad quendam locum qui dicitur le Birk, et de eodem ascendendo per
semitam que tendit usque ad orientem finem fossati de Blachous, sicut
idem Gilbertus superius clamat. Dicunt eciam iidem ministri quod
idem Gilbertus et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat
memoria fugarunt ad lepores, vulpes, catos et tessones in Brumpton,

side the regard, namely, that part to the north beginning at Braith-
waite on the west, down Troutsdale beck to the east as far as its
junction with the rill that flows from the spring called Appletreekeld,
thence up the rill to the spring, thence straight up to Blackhouse* ness,
thence crossing the brow to a stone opposite the Birk between the Birk
and Blackhouse ness, thence by a direct path to the east end of
Blackhouse dike, thence along the dike as it goes from east to west to
a path that lies to the south of Brown Howes, descending by this path
to the brow of Goodricke gill, and by the rill that passes through
the gill to Braithwaite where the rill joins the Troutsdale beck, but
not from the spring called Appletreekeld uphill along a slanting path to
Headgate brow, thence along the brow of the wood still uphill obliquely
towards the east to a place called the Birk, thence uphill by a path
which leads to the east end of Blackhouse dike, as Gilbert claims above.
The officers also say that Gilbert and all his ancestors from ancient
time have hunted hare, fox, wild cat and badger within the Acredikes
in Brompton, as he claims above. They also from ancient time by
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scilicet infra les Acredikes, prout superius clamat. Dicunt eciam quod
idem Gilbertus et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat
memoria virtute carte predicte habuerunt capras suas depascentes in
moris et boscis de Hotonbussel, infra coopertum et extra, omni tempore
anni, et similiter eradicarunt brueram et fugeram in mora et bosco de
Hoton, et eciam turbas foderunt et eas pro voluntate sua dederunt,
vendiderunt et cariarunt infra forestam et extra, et similiter agistarunt
in Hotonker solummodo et [? non] alibi in eadem villa, et proficuum
agistamenti illius ceperunt, et habuerunt wodewardos suos in Aton,
Brumpton et Hoton in boscis suis propriis infra forestam prout superius
clamat. Ideo consideratum est quod idem Gilbertus quoad hoc quod
clamat tenere boscum suum predictum in Troucedale extra regardum
foreste in parte ejusdem bosci a predicto fonte de Apiltrekeld per
quandam obliquam semitam usque ad locum qui dicitur Hevedgate-
browe, et inde per cilium bosci ascendendo adhuc in obliquo versus
orientem usque ad locum qui dicitur le Birk, et de eodem loco
ascendendo per semitam qui tendit ad orientem [298] finem fossati de
Blachous, et similiter quoad agistamentum habendum in predicta villa
de Hoton alibi quam tantummodo in Hotonker nichil capiat per
clamium suum predictum, set sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo-
Et quoad residuum clamiorum suorum predictorum ea habeat et
gaudeat salvo semper jure etc.

Prior de Malton* clamat quod ipse et omnes homines sui sint quieti de

virtue of the grant, had goats pasturing in the moors and woods of
Hutton Bushel, within the covert and without, at every season of the
year, and likewise uprooted heather and bracken in the moor and wood
of Hutton, dug turves therein, and at their pleasure gave, sold, and
carried them away within the forest and without, and likewise agisted
in Hutton Carr only, and not elsewhere in the township, and received
the profit of agistment, and had woodwards in their own woods of
Ayton, Brompton, and Hutton Bushel as- he claims above. Judgment
is given that Gilbert takes nothing by his claim of having quit of
regard that part of his wood at Troutsdale from the spring of Apple-
treekeld uphill along a slanting path to Headgate brow, thence along
the brow of the wood still uphill obliquely towards the east to a place
called the Birk, thence uphill by a path which leads to the east end of
Blackhouse dike, or as to his claim of having agistment elsewhere in
the township of Hutton than in Hutton Carr, but is to be amerced for
making a false claim. He is to enjoy the rest of his claims for ever,
without prejudice etc.

The Prior of Malton claims that he and his men are quit of amerce-
* Claudius D. XI., at the British Museum is the Register of Malton Priory. It

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misericordia foreste, et quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de escapiis,
et quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de omnibus geldis, et
quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de fotgeldis, et quod ipse
et homines sui sint quieti de bukstallis, tristis,* carreio et summagio.
Et similiter clamat habere housebote et haibote in boscis de Kynthorp,
et similiter clamat habere housebote et haibote in boscis de
Neuton, et similiter habere housebote et haibote in boscis de Lokton,
et similiter habere housebote et haibote in boscis de Edbreston,
secundum assisam foreste ; et dicit quod dominus H, quondam Rex
Anglie,t progenitor domini Regis nunc, per cartam suam suscepit in
manura suam propriam custodiam, proteccionem et defensionem
domum in Semprengham|: et omnes domos ejusdem ordinis, videlicet
de Chiksand et de Malton et alias, etc. ; et dicit§ quod tarn ipsi quam
eorum homines quieti essent de misericordia foreste, de escapiis, de
omnibus geldis, fotgeldis, bukstallis, tristis, carreio et summagio pre-
dictis, unde dicit quod virtute carte predicte ipse et homines sui et
similiter omnes Priores loci predicti, predecessores sui, et homines sui
a tempore confeccionis ejusdem carte sine interrupcione de premissis
fuerunt quieti in foresta predicta et hoc paratus est verificare per
ministros foreste et petit quod clamium suum ei in hac parte alloc etur.
Et quia non liquet Curie manifeste cujusmodi quietancias racione
vocabulorum predictorum idem Prior pro se et hominibus suis intendit
habere, dictum est eidem Prior quod eadem vocabula declaret etc.

ments of the forest, escapes, all manner of gelds, footgelds, buckstalls,
trists, payments for passage of carts or pack-saddles. He likewise
claims housebote and hedgebote in the woods of Kingthorpe, Newton,
Lockton and Ebberston, according to the assize of the forest. He
pleads that Henry III. granted by deed protection to the House of
Sempringham and all houses of the same order, namely, Chicksand,
Malton and others. By virtue of which deed he is ready to prove that
he and all former Priors and their men have ever been quit of the
burdens before mentioned without interruption since the date of the deed,
and he prays that his claim may be allowed. As it is not clear to the
Court what manner of quittance the Prior claims by these words for

was compiled in the year 1257, but in a later hand we find this claim entered at
fol. 126. As the entry is probably contemporaneous with the Eyre, I have called
attention to the points of difference. The date is given as 1336, and the Prior's name
is William, but at fol. 125, see p. 161 post, he is spoken of as John.

* Claudius D. XL has tristris.

t The deed will be printed in a later volume.

% A house of Gilbertine canons in Lincolnshire, of which Malton and Ellerton
were off hoots. Claudius D. XL has here de Sempingham.

% Claudius D. XL has precepit.

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Et Prior dicit quod quoad clamium suum quod ipse et homines sui
sint quieti de misericordia foreste ipsi per hoc hucusque extiterunt
quieti de omni misericordia in qua aliqualiter in foresta predicta ipse
et homines sui incidere possunt, et quoad hoc quod ipse et homines sui
sint quieti de escapio dicit quod secundum assisam foreste si averia
alicujus in landis vetitis vel tempore vetito in eadem inveniantur,
prima vice vel* quolibet pede averiorum illorum ipsi quorum
fuerinta merciantur ad unum denarium, et si secundo ibidem invenian-
tur similiter pro quolibet pede unum denarium, et si tercio ibidem
inveniantur averia ilia remaneant domino forisfacta, de quibus amer-
ciamentis et forisfacturis per hujusmodi vocabulum de escapio
extiterunt quieti. [Et quoad hoc quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti
de omnibus geldis dicit quod ipsi per hoc extiterunt quieti]! de omni
putura forestariorum et omni prestacione facienda ad collectam
garbarum, agnorum et lane ad opus forestariorum ejusdem foreste. Et
quoad hoc quod clamant esse quieti de fotgeldis, dicit quod omnes
canes hominum manencium infra limites ejusdem foreste debent expe-
ditari secundum assisam ejusdem foreste, vel si non fuerint expeditati
graviter amerciantur, vel pro ipsis non expeditatis finem faciant : ipse
et homines sui per hoc de hujusmodi amerciamentis et finibus semper
ex causa predicta, necnon et expeditacione eorundum quieti perman-
serunt. Et quoad hoc [298b] vocabulum quod dicitur tristisf dicit
quod ubi alii homines manentes in eadem foresta tempore quo dominus

himself and his men, he is called upon to explain their meaning. He
says that by being quit of amercements of the forest he and his men
have ever been quit of every amercement which could in any manner
fall upon him or his men in the forest. As to escapes, he says that
according to the assize of the forest, if any man's cattle are found in
forbidden lands or at a forbidden season, the first time the owners are
fined id a foot, the second time likewise id a foot, the third time the
cattle are forfeited to the lord of which also they are quit. They are
also quit of all gelds, that is to say of the foresters' puture, and of
contributing to collections of sheaves, lambs, and wool for the use of
the foresters. They are also quit of footgeld, whilst the dogs of all
other residents within the limits of the forest ought to be lawed
according to the assize of the forest, or if not lawed their owners are
heavily fined or compound. They are also quit of trists, whilst all other
residents in the forest when the lord hunts therein ought to hold grey-

* Claudius D. XI. has pro.

t The words in square brackets are omitted, and have been supplied from
Claudius D. XI.

% See Ducange, sub voce, " Mon. Angl.," Vol. II., p. 827.

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jaciaverit [? chaciaverit], venire debent in eadem ad tenendos lepora-
rios certis locis eis assignatis pro feris ibidem expectandis et capiendis ;
et similiter quoad hoc vocabulum quod dicitur bukstallis dicit quod ubi
iidem homines tenentur ibidem convenire ad stabulariam* faciendam
circa easdem feras et ad easdem congregandas, quod si non fecerint
amercientur vel pro eodem finem faciant, ipse et homines sui virtute
carte predicte semper a tempore confeccionis ejusdem de hujusmodi
consuetudinibus, necnon finibus et amerciamentis in foresta ista quieti
extiterunt. Et quoad vocabulum carreiof scilicet cum alique carre
vel carecte carcate transeuntes per forestam et similiter summagia
equorum consueti sunt solvere secundum majus vel minus ministris
ejusdem pro chimino ibidem habendo, ipse et homines sui, licet eorum
carre, carecte vel summagia per eandem forestam transierint de hujusmodi
prestacione pro chimino suo habendo semper a tempore confeccionis
carte predicte quieti extiterunt. Dicit eciam Prior quoad housebote et
haibote in boscis predictis secundum assisam foreste habenda ipse et
omnes Priores loci predicti a tempore quo non extat memoria
habuerunt housebote et haibote in predictis boscis, scilicet in boscis de
Edbreston tanquam pertinencia ad liberum tenementum suum in
eadem villa, et in boscis de Neuton tanquam pertinencia ad liberum
tenementum suum in eadem villa, et in boscis de Lokton tanquam
pertinencia ad liberum tenementum suum in eadem villa, et in boscis
de Kynthorp tanquam pertinencia ad liberum tenementum suum in
eadem villa secundum assisam foreste ; et hoc paratus est verificare per
ministros foreste vel aliter prout Curia etc., et petit quod clamia sua
predicta in hac parte allocentur. Et quia videtur Justiciariis quod

hounds at fixed stations to wait for and take the deer. They are also
quit of buckstalls, whilst the other residents ought to assemble for the
purpose of collecting the deer into an inclosure which they have to
make for that purpose, or if they fail to do so are heavily fined or
compound. Also whenever any carts or waggons pass loaded through
the forest, or horses with packs on their backs, the owners thereof are
wont to pay the officers of the forest a greater or less sum for their
right of passage, but they have ever, by virtue of the deed, been quit of
making any payment in respect thereof.

The Prior is also ready to prove that from ancient time he and his
predecessors have enjoyed as appurtenant to their free tenements in the
townships of Ebberston, Newton, Lockton, and Kingthorpe, housebote
and hedgebote in the woods of the same townships. He prays that his

* Gender doubtful. Claudius D. XI. has stableiam.

t In Ducange referred to as Canto, the reference to ihe Exchequer Coucher,
i.e., fol. 168, being given. Compare with ckeminage, Vol. I., N.S., p. 20.

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expediens est et necesse quod Curia cercioretur super possessione
ipsius Prioris in hac parte, inquiratur inde Veritas per ministros ejus
dem foreste. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc
jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod quoad hoc quod*
idem Prior vel homines sui ceperint aliquod boscum vel subboscum in
eadem foresta extra f assisam ejusdem, ipse et homines sui semper
amerciati hucusque fuerunt et adhuc sunt, velut alii homines ejusdem
foreste. Dicunt tamen quod ipse et homines sui et similiter predecessores
sui et eorum homines semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicte
quieti fuerunt de vigiliis faciendis corporum ferarum mortuorum, et
dicunt quoad hoc quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de escapiis,
geldis, fotegeldis, bukstallis et tristis quod nee Prior qui nunc est nee
homines sui nee aliquis predecessorum suorum seu eorum homines
unquam virtute carte predicte inde disportati fuerunt seu quieti.
Et dicunt quod quoad carreium et summagium ipse Prior et homines
sui et omnes predecessores sui et eorum homines inde virtute carte
predicte extiterunt quieti. Dicunt eciam iidem ministri quod quoad
housebote et haibote quos clamat habere in boscis predictis, idem
Prior et omnes predecessores loci predicti semper a tempore quo
non extat memoria usi sunt habendi housebote et haibote in boscis
predictis tanquam pertinentes ad liberum tenementum suum quod tenet
in eisdem villis prout superius declaravit. Ideo [299] consideratum

claims may be allowed. As it appears expedient to the Justices that
the Court should be informed as to Prior's possession, an inquiry is
directed and it is found that the Prior and his men have always been
and still are fined whenever they took any wood or underwood in the
forest beyond the assize, like other men in the forest. They say that
he, his predecessors and their men have always been quit of keeping
watch over the dead bodies of the deer, but as to being quit of escapes,
gelds, footgelds, buckstalls and trists, they say that neither the present
Prior, nor his men, nor any of his predecessors, nor their men, were
ever excused, % or quit thereof by virtue of the grant, but they
were quit by virtue of the grant of all payment for the passage of
carts and pack-saddle, and they have ever, from ancient time, been
accustomed to have housebote and hedgebote in the woods above
mentioned as appurtenant to their free tenements in the same townships,
as claimed above. Judgment is given that the Prior and his successors

* Claudius D. XI. has idem Prior clamat quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de
misericordia foreste dicunt quod quandocumque.

t Claudius D. XI. has contra.

X Kelham gives disporter (ezex) ease them, excuse them. I have not found another
instance of the Latin form used here.

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est quod ipse et successores sui quoad housebote et haibote secundum
assisam foreste ut predictum est, habeant et teneant imperpetuum, et
similiter quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de vigilia facienda super
fera mortua et de carreio et summagio predictis salvo semper jure, etc.,
et similiter quod idem Prior sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo
residue ei non allocato.

Prior de Ellerton clamat quod ipse et homines sui sint quieti de
misericordia foreste, de vasto et regardo foreste ubique in maresco, et
in omnibus geldis, wodegeldis, horngeldis, fotegeldis, bukstallis, tristis
et amerciamentis, et quod sint quieti de scoto, et de omni carreio,
summagio et tallagio, et quando homines sui sunt dampnati in exilium
quod habeat omnia catalla eorum, et quod oves et animalia eorum non
capiantur in manum, nee in communi pastura imparcentur. Et similiter
clamat habere forisfacturas et misericordias hominum suorum de
omnibus placitis ubicumque fuerint indictati. Et dicit quod dominus
Henricus quondam Rex Anglie progenitor domini Regis nunc per
cartam suam suscepitin manum suam propriam custodiam, proteccionem
et defensionem domus de Ellertona, et precepit quod ipse et homines
sui fuissent quieti de misericordia foreste, vasto, regardo, geldis, wode-
geldis, fotgeldis, horngeldis, bukstallis, tristis et amerciamantis. Et quod
fuissent quieti de scoto et de omni carreio, summagio et tallagio, et quod
haberet omnia catalla hominum suorum cum dampnati fuerint in exilium,
et quod oves aut animalia eorum non caperentur in manum neque in
communi pastura imparcarentur ; et quod haberent misericordias et
forisfacturas hominum suorum ubicumque fuerint indictati ; unde dicit

receive for ever housebote and hedgebote in accordance with the
assize of the forest, and likewise be quit of keeping watch over dead
deer, and paying for the passage of carts and pack-saddles, but he is
to be amerced for his false claim, so far as his claim is not allowed.

The Prior of Ellerton claims that he and his men are quit of
amercements of the forest, waste and regard of the forest everywhere
in the marsh, and of gelds, wood-gelds, horn-gelds, foot-gelds, buck-
stalls, trists and amercements, of scot, of payments for the passage of
carts and pack-saddles, of tallage; and that he ought to have the
goods and chattels of such of his men as are outlawed ; and that their
sheep and other animals ought not to be seized or impounded in the
common pasture ; and he likewise claims the forfeitures and amerce-
ments of all his men in any pleas wherever they may be indicted.
All this he claims to have enjoyed under a deed granted by Henry III.
who took the house of Ellerton under his protection. He is ready to
prove that he and his men and all former Priors have from the date
of the deed enjoyed all these rights without interruption, and he prays

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quod virtute carte predicte ipse et homines sui et similiter omnes Priores
loci predicti semper a tempore confeccionis ejusdem carte sine inter-
rupcione de premissis fuerunt qnieti et liberi de scoto, carreio, et omni
summagio et tallagio, et habuerunt catalla hominum suorum dampna-
torum in exilium et similiter misericordias et forisfacturas eorundem
ubicumque fuerint indictati ; et oves et animalia eorum non capiebantur
in manum nee imparcabantur in communi ; et hoc paratus est verificare
per ministros foreste ; et petit quod clamia sua predicta in hac parte ei
allocentur. Et quia non liquet Curie manifeste cujusmodi libertates
racione predictorum vocabulorum idem Prior pro se et hominibus suis
intendit, dictum est eidem Priori quod eadem vocabula declaret etc.
Et Prior dicit quod quoad clamium suum quod ipse et homines sui
sint quieti de misericordia foreste, ipsi per hoc extiterunt quieti de omni
misericordia in qua aliqualiter in foresta predicta ipse et homines sui
possint incidere. Et de vasto quieti sunt, scilicet si vastum fecerint in
boscis suis infra forestam, non propter hoc occasionentur. Et de
rewardo similiter quieti sunt ubique in maresco. Et quoad hoc quod
ipse et homines sui sint quieti de omnibus geldis dicit quod ipsi per
hoc extiterunt quieti de omni putura forestariorum et omni prestacione
facienda ad collectam garbarum, agnorum et lane ad opus forestariorum
ejusdem foreste. Et de wodegeldis scilicet cum contigerit quod aliqua
collecta* in foresta facta fuerit ad opus quorumcumque ministrorum
foreste [299b] ipse et homines sui de hujusmodi wodegeldis virtute
carte predicte quieti sunt, et de horngeldisf similiter dicit quod cum
contigerit aliqua collecta fieri in foresta de bestiis cornutis scilicet

that his claims may be allowed. As it is not clear to the court what
kind of liberties the Prior intends to claim for himself and his men by
these words he is commanded to explain their meaning. He says
that by being quit of amercements of the forest he and his men have
ever been quit of every amercement which could in any manner fall
upon him or his men in the forest. They are quit of waste, that is to
say, they are not to be troubled on account of any waste which they
may commit in their woods within the forest. They are likewise quit
of regard everywhere in the marsh. They are also quit of all gelds,
that is to say, of the foresters' puture and of contributing to collec-
tions of sheaves, lambs and wool for the use of the foresters ; and
likewise of wood-gelds whenever any collection is made for the use of
any of the officers of the forest, and likewise of horn-gelds when any

* As, for instance, the claim to hens attempted to be set up, Vol. I., N.S.,
page 222.

f Compare with this comagium in the Glossary to the Boldon Buke, Surtees Society,
Vol. XXV., p. 55.

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secundum majus vel minus cum contigerit acessari, ipse et homines sui
per hoc sunt quieti. Et quoad hoc vocabulum fotegeldis dicit quod
omnes canes hominum manencium infra limites ejusdem foreste debent
expeditari secundum assisam ejusdem foreste, vel si non fuerint expedi-
tati graviter amerciantur, vel pro ipsis non expeditatis finem faciant,
ipsi et homines sui per hoc de hujusmodi amerciamentis et finibus
semper ex causa predicta necnon expeditacione eorundem quieti
permanserunt. Et similiter quoad hoc vocabulum quod dicitur
bukstallis dicit quod ubi iidem homines tenentur ibidem convenire ad
stalleiam faciendam circa feras et ad easdem congregandas, quod si
non fecerint graviter amerciantur vel pro eodem finem faciant, ipse et
homines sui virtute carte predicte semper a tempore confeccionis
ejusdem de hujusmodi consuetudinibus necnon finibus et amercia-
mentis in foresta ista quieti extiterunt. Et quoad hoc vocabulum quod
dicitur tristis dicit quod ubi alii homines manentes in eadem foresta
tempore quo dominus chaciaverit in eadem venire debent ad tenendos
leporarios certis locis eis assignatis pro feris ibidem expectandis et
capiendis. Et quoad hoc vocabulum de amerciamentis, scilicet quando
dicti homines non veniunt ad tristas et bukstallos amerciantur, et de
predictis tristis et bukstallis et hujusmodi amerciamentis sint quieti.
Et quoad hoc vocabulum de carreio dicit quod cum alique carre vel
carrecte carcate transeuntes per forestam, et similiter summagia equorum
consuete sunt solvere secundum majus et minus ministris ejusdem pro
chimino ibidem habendo, ipse et homines sui licet eorum carre,
carecte vel summagia per eandem forestam transierint de
hujusmodi prestacione pro chimino suo habendo semper a tempore

collection varying in amount is made of horned beasts within the
forest ; and likewise of footgelds whilst the dogs of all other residents
within the limits of the forest ought to be lawed according to the
assize of the forest, or if not lawed their owners are heavily fined or
compound. They are also quit of buckstalls whilst the other residents
ought to assemble for the purpose of collecting deer into an inclosure
which they have to make for that purpose, or if they fail to do so are
heavily fined or compound. They are also quit of trists whilst all
other residents in the forest when the lord hunts therein ought to hold
greyhounds at fixed stations to wait for and take the deer. They are
also quit of all amercements for not appearing at buckstalls and trists.
They are also quit of making any payment great or small for the
passage of loaded carts or waggons or packsaddles through the forest.
Scot is when a collection is made amongst the men for conveying
prisoners [?] or the like ; they are quit of that and also of tallage.
Whenever any of their men are outlawed in the forest Eyre for offences

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confeccionis carte predicte quieti extiterunt. Et quoad hoc
quod liberi sunt de scoto et tallagio dicit quod scotum est
quando dicti homines faciunt collectam inter se et prisones ducendos
vel hujusmodi, ipsi de hoc quieti sunt et similiter de tallagio. Et
quoad hoc quod clamat habere catalla hominum sucrum dampna-
torum in exilium, scilicet cum homines sui utlagentur in isto itinere
foreste pro transgressione viridi et venacionis ipse habebit eorum catalla
et predecessores sui sic habuerunt virtute carte predicte. Et quod oves
et animalia eorum non capiantur in manum neque in communi pastura
imparcentur, scilicet pro nulla causa. Et quod habeat misericordias et
forisfacturas hominum suorum de omnibus placitis ubicumque fuerint
indictati, scilicet tarn in itinere isto quam alii [? alibi]. Quibus quidem
libertatibus ipse et homines sui et similiter omnes Priores loci predicti
predecessores sui a tempore confeccionis carte predicte sine interrup-
cione usi sunt et gavisi, et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros istius
foreste etc. Ideo inquiratur rei Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet
forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod Prior qui nunc est et homines sui et omnes
Priores loci predicti predecessores sui semper a tempore confeccionis carte
predicte quieti sunt et fuerunt in foresta ista de misericordia I300] foreste
et vasto ubique in marisco, et similiter de wodegeldis, horngeldis,
fotegeldis, bukstallis, tristis et amerciamentis, et liberi similiter extite-
runt de scoto et de omni carreio, summagio et tallagio prout superius
clamat, et similiter habuerunt catalla hominum suorum dampnatorum in
exilium et ceteras libertates in clamio suo contentas, exceptis de rewardo
in marisco qui [? quia] ministri foreste semper illud fecerunt ibidem.
Et similiter de expeditacione canum suorum et hominum suorum quod
ministri ejusdem foreste semper se inde intromiserunt et misericordias
pro eis perceperunt et levaverunt. Ideo consideratum es ; quod idem
Prior quoad rewardum et expeditacionem nichil capiat per clamium

of vert or venison they and their predecessors have always from the
date of the grant had their goods and chattels of such outlaws.
Moreover their sheep and other animals are not for any cause to be
seized or impounded in the common pasture.

He ought also to have the amercements and forfeitures of all his
men arising from pleas wherever indicted, either in the present Eyre or
elsewhere. He is ready to prove that he, his predecessors and men
have enjoyed these rights without interruption from the date of the
grant. An inquiry is directed, and it is found that the present Prior
and his men and all former Priors have enjoyed the rights claimed
except as to regard in the marsh which the officers of the forest have
always made, and likewise the officers of the forest have always paid

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suum, set sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo, et similiter quod
idem Prior quoad residuum clamiorum suorum habeat illud et gaudeat
sibi et successoribus suis imperpetuum, salvo semper jure etc.

Johannes de Melsa miles clamat habere housebote et haibote pro se,
hominibus et tenentibus suis de Levesham in boscis suis de Levesham
secundum assisam foreste, et habere racionabile estoverium de turbis
pro se, hominibus et tenentibus predictis in dominicis suis de Levesham
fodiendo, et habere forgiam et mineram ferri in boscis suis de Levesham,
reddendo inde per annum Comiti ijs, et habere aereas falconum,
merlenionum et espervariorum et mel quod inventum fuerit in boscis suis
de Levesham ; et clamat habere wodewardum in boscis suis de
Levesham ; et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui a tempore
quo non extat memoria usi sunt pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis
habere housebote et haibote in boscis predictis tanquam pertinencia ad
liberum tenementum suum in eadem villa, et similiter habere racionabile
estoverium de turbis pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis in dominicis
suis de Levesham fodiendo, ipse et omnes antecessores sui semper a
tempore quo non extat memoria usi sunt et gavisi, et dicit similiter quod
ipse et omnes antecessores sui semper a tempore quo non extat
memoria habuerunt forgeam et mineram ferri in boscis suis de
Levesham, et ceperunt cablicia et siccum boscum in eisdem pro
sustentacione ejusdem per redditum predictum, et similiter habuerunt
aereas falconum, merlenionum et espervariorum et mel quod inventum
fuerit in eisdem boscis, et similiter wodewardum in eisdem, et hoc
paratus est verifkare per ministros ejusdem foreste etc. Et quia
videtur Justiciariis quod expediens est et necesse quod inquiratur
per eosdem qualiter predictus Johannes de Melsa et antecessores sui
libertatibus predictis usi sunt, ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem
ministros. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati
dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predictus Johannes de Melsa et
omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria semper et

attention to the lawing of their dogs and levied fines in respect
thereof. Judgment is given in accordance with the verdict.

Sir John de Meaux claims to have housebote and hedgebote for him-
self, his men and tenants of Levisham in his woods of Levisham in
accordance with the assize of the forest, and reasonable estovers of
turves in his demesnes of Levisham for himself, his men and tenants,
and ironstone and a smelting-place in his woods of Levisham, paying
to the earl an annual rent of 2s and aeries of falcons, merlins and
sparrowhawks and whatever honey is found in his woods at Levisham,
and he claims to have a woodward in such woods. He is ready to
prove that all these rights having been exercised by himself and his

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sine interrupcione habuerunt housebote et haibote et racionabile
estoverium de turbis pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis predictis in
boscis et dominicis suis de Levesham, et similiter habuerunt forgeam et
mineram ferri in boscis suis de Levesham pro redditu predicto, et
ceperunt cablicia et siccum boscum in eisdem pro sustentacione
ejusdem, et similiter habuerunt aereas falconum, [300 b] merlenionum et
espervariorum et mel quod inventum fuerit in boscis predictis, et
similiter wodewardum. Ideo consideratum est quod predictus Johannes
de Melsa omnes libertates suas in clamio suo contentas habeat et
gaudeat imperpetuum, salvo semper jure etc.

Radulphus de Hastyng clamat in mora sua de Alverstan capere
brueram [et] feugeram et fodere turbas in eadem mora et asportare,
cariare, dare et vend ere pro voluntate sua ; clamat eciam in eadem
mora loco qui dicitur Arnaldestan construere bercarias et eas habere et
tenere et aliis quibuscumque dimittere pro voluntate sua ; et eciam in
boscis suis de Alverstan, scilicet in Crostclyf et Stayndale capere per
assisam foreste viridum pro housebote et haibote et siccum boscum ad
faciendum inde proficuum suum sine visu vel liberacione pro voluntate
sua ; et eciam in Farmanby quendam boscum* qui vocatur Langowe-
dale, videlicet de Howe de Langowedale versus orientem totam illam
partem, videlicet viridum per assisam foreste pro housebote et haibote
siccum capere, vendere, dare et omnino inde voluntatem suam facere ;
et eciam communicare cum capris in omnibus boscis et moris predictis
tarn de Alverstan quam de Farmanby, omnibus temporibus anni sine
occasione vel calumpnia ballivorum vel forestariorum ; et eciam fugare
ad vulpes et lepores infra les Acredikesf de Alverstan et Farmanby ; et

ancestors from ancient time, the housebote and hedgebote being
appurtenant to his free tenement in Levisham and brouse-wood and
dry wood being taken to feed his furnaces. An inquiry is directed,
and it is found that Sir John and his ancestors have from ancient time
enjoyed the rights so claimed without interruption. Judgment is
given in accordance with the verdict.

Sir Ralph Hastings claims the right of taking heather and bracken,
and cutting turves on Allerston Moor, and carrying them away,
giving and selling them at pleasure ; he also claims the right of
erecting sheepfolds at a place on the same moor called Arnold's stone,
of occupying them himself and leasing them to others ; he also claims

* The grammar here is somewhat mixed.

t There is a very full note by Canon Atkinson on this word in the Surtees Society,
Vol. LXXIL, p. 426. Within the Acredikes was comprised the arable land of the
township, which might be common or, as was the case in the passage referred to,
held in severalty.

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eciam presentare unum wodewardum in moris et boscis suis de
Farmanby. Et dicit quod ipse est tenens manerii de Alverstan de quo
mora predicta est parcella, et ipse et omnes antecessores sui, tenentes
ejusdem manerii, a tempore quo non extat memoria usi sunt capere
brueram, feugeram, fodere turbas in predicta mora sua de Alverstan, et
asportare, cariare, vendere et dare pro voluntate sua ; et dicit similiter
quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui, tenentes ejusdem manerii, a
tempore quo non extat memoria usi sunt construere bercarias in
eadern mora loco qui dicit Ardolvestan [sic] et eas habere et tenere et
aliis quibuscumque dimittere pro voluntate sua ; et dicit similiter quod
quoad habendum viridum [pro] housebote et haibote in boscis
suis de Alverstan et siccum ad faciendum proficuum suum sine
liberacione vel visu in locis predictis, ipse est dominus de Farmanby
[? Alverstain] unde boscus predictes est parcella et ipse et omnes
antecessores sui tenentes ejusdem manerii, a tempore quo non extat
memoria usi sunt capere in boscis suis predictis de Alverstan, scilicet in
Crostclyf et Srayndale, per assisam foreste viridum pro housebote et
haibote et siccum ad faciendum inde proficuum suum sine visu vel
liberacione pro voluntate sua; et quoad capiendum brueram
et feugeram et fodere turbas in mora sua de Farmanby et eas
asportare, cariare, vendere et dare et inde omnino voluntatem suam
facere, dicit similiter quod ipse est dominus de Farmanby et ipse et
omnes antecessores sui et alii cujus statum ipse [301] habet a tempore
quo non extat memoria ceperunt brueram, feugeram et fodere
turbas in eadem mora et eas asportare, cariare, vendere et dare et
voluntatem suam inde fecerunt ; et quoad communicandum cum capris
in omnibus boscis et moris predictis tarn de Alverstan quam de
Farmanby omnibus temporibus anni sine occasione etc, et similiter
fugare lepores infra les Acredykes de Alverstan et Farmanby, et habere

in his woods at Allerston, Cross Cliff and Staindale, the right of
taking vert according to the assize of the forest for housebote and
hedgebote and dry wood to make profit thereout without view or
livery of the foresters at his own pleasure ; he also claims in a wood
in Farmandby called Langatdale in all that part to the east of the
Howe the right of taking vert according to the assize of the forest for
housebote and hedgebote, and to take, sell, give away and do what he
likes with the dry wood ; and also the right of common of pasture for
his goats in all the woods and moors before mentioned, as well
those of Allerston as of Farmandby, at all times of the year without
hindrance or adverse claim made by the bailiffs or foresters ; and also
the right of hunting fox and hare within the Acredikes of Allerston
and Farmandby ; and also of presenting [at the Attachment Court] a
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unum wodewardum in moris et boscis suis de Alverstan, et alium
wodewardum in moris et boscis suis de Farmanby (et) dicit quod ipse
et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria semper
communicarunt cum capris in omnibus moris et boscis predictis, et
similiter fugarunt ad vulpes et lepores infra les Acredykes, et habuerunt
unum wodewardum in moris et boscis predictis de Alverstan et
wodewardum in moris et boscis suis de Farmanby, et hoc paratus
verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste etc. Ideo inquiratur inde
Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores
super hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod quoad
clamia sua, scilicet capiendi in mora sua de Alverstan brueram,
feugerarn et fodiendi turbas in eadem mora et eas asportandi, cariandi,
dandi et vendendi per voluntatem suam, et similiter in boscis de
Alverstan per divisas predictas capiendi viridum per assisam foreste pro
housebote et haibote et siccum ad faciendum inde proficuum suum sine
visu vel liberacione, et similiter communicandi cum capris in omnibus
moris et boscis predictis tam in Alverstan quam in Farmanby omnibus
temporibus anni sine occasione vel calumpnia ballivorum vel
forestariorum, et similiter presentandi unum wodewardum in moris et
boscis suis de Alverstan et alium wodewardum in moris et boscis suis de
Farmanby, quod idem Radulphus et omnes antecessores sui a tempore
quo non extat memoria usi sunt in boscis suis de Alverstan, scilicet in
Crostclyf et Stayndale capere per assisam foreste viridum pro housebote
et haibote et siccum ad faciendum inde proficuum suum sine visu vel
liberacione pro voluntate sua, et similiter quod idem Radulphus et
antecessores sui predicti semper a tempore quo non extat memoria usi
sunt communicare cum capris in omnibus moris et boscis predictis
tam de Alverstan quam de Farmanby omnibus temporibus anni sine
calumpnia vel occasione ballivorum vel forestariorum, et similiter quod
idem Radulphus et omnes antecessores sui predicti semper a tempore

woodward for his moors and woods of Farmandby. He is ready to
prove that he holds the manors of Allerston and Farmandby, of which
the moors and woods above referred to are respectively parcel, and he
and his ancestors while holding such manors have, from ancient time,
been wont to exercise the rights so claimed.

An inquiry is directed and the jury say that Sir Ralph and his
ancestors have been wont from ancient time to take in the woods of
Allerston, Cross Cliff and Staindale, vert according to the assize of the
forest for housebote and hedgebote and dry wood to make profit
thereout at their own pleasure without view or livery of the foresters,
and likewise to exercise common of pasture for their goats in all woods
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quo non extat memoria presentarunt unum wodewardum in moris et
boscis suis de Alverstan et alium wodewardum in moris et boscis suis
de P^armanby, et quoad clamium suum construendi bercarias in mora
de Alverstan scilicet in Ardolvestan et eas habere et tenere et aliis
quibuscumque dimittere pro voluntate sua dicunt iidem ministri super
sacramentum suum quod a tempore quo non extat memoria habebat
quendam bercariam ab antiquo edificatam cujus muri adhuc stant,
quam quidem bercariam antecessores predicti Radulphi edificarunt et
habuerunt et tenuerunt et dimiserunt pro voluntate sua, et idem
Radulphus earn adhuc edificare, habere et tenere potest ut de jure
suo ab antiquo si velit, set quod nee ipse nee antecessores sui unquam
ibi construerunt [301b] seu habuerunt aliquas bercarias ut clamat, et
quoad clamium quod clamat in Farmanby quendam boscum qui vocatur
Langowedale per divisas in eodem clamio contentas, et habere ibidem
viridum per assisam foreste pro housebote et haibote, et siccum capere,
vendere, et dare et omnino inde voluntatem suum facere, dicunt iidem
ministri super sacramentum suum quod idem Radulphus nee aliquis
antecessorum suorum unquam aliquo tempore aliter fuerunt inde
seisiti, nisi quod omnes wodewardi ipsius Radulphi et antecessorum
suorum a tempore quo non extat memoria usi sunt capere de hominibus,
mulieribus et pueris communam* non habentibus portantibus siccum
boscum super eorum capitaf qualibet septimana unum denarium vel
aliquando unum obolum de bosco predicto, salva hominibus ejusdem
ville communa sua, et si iidem homines et mulieres vel pueri nichil
solverint eidem, summoniti fuerunt veniendum ad curiam ipsius Radulphi

without adverse claim or hindrance from the bailiffs or foresters ; they
have likewise presented one woodward for Allerston and another for
Farmandby. But as to the sheepfolds they say that Sir Ralph had a
sheepfold built long ago whose walls are still standing ; his ancestors
built it, occupied it and leased it at pleasure, and Sir Ralph can, if he
please, do the same as his prescriptive right, but neither he nor his
ancestors ever erected or occupied any other sheepfolds as he claims.
As to Langatdale, they say that the only right that Sir Ralph or any
of his ancestors ever had therein was that all their woodwards from
ancient time were accustomed to take from men, women and children,
who had no common of estovers and carried dry wood away on their
heads, sometimes a penny and sometimes a halfpenny a week, saving
all rights of common, and if the men, women or children did not pay they
were summoned to Sir Ralph's court and fined there for their offence.

* The contraction for causam is used.

t It is interesting to notice how ancient this method of carrying firewood is. It
may, perhaps, be said that no other method is physically possible.

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et ibidem amerciati fuerunt pro delicto illo : et quoad hoc quod idem
Radulphus clamat in mora sua de Farmanby capere brueram, feugeram
et fodere turbas et eas asportare, cariare et dare et inde omnino
voluntatem suum facere, dicunt iidem ministri quod iidem Radulphus
et omnes antecessores sui et tenentes ejusdem manerii a tempore quo
non extat memoria habuerunt brueram, feugeram et foderunt turbas pro
suis [? usubus] propriis tantum et non pro vendere, dare nee aliter
voluntatem suam facere ; et quoad hoc quod idem Radulphus clamat
communicare cum capris in omnibus boscis et moris predictis tam de
Alverstan quam de Farmanby omnibus temporibus anni sine occasione
vel calumpnia ballivorum et forestariorum, et similiter presentare unum
wodewardum in moris et boscis suis de Alverstan et alium wodewardum
in boscis suis de Farmanby, dicunt iidem ministri quod ipse et omnes
antecessores sui et tenentes* eorundem maneriorum quorum statum
ipse habet a tempore quo non extat memoria communicarunt in boscis
et moris predictis tam de Alverstan quam de Farmanby omnibus
temporibus anni sine calumpnia vel occasione forestariorum vel
ballivorum, et eciam presentaverunt unum wodewardum in moris et
boscis suis de Alverstan et alium wodewardum in moris et boscis suis
de Farmanby ; et quoad hoc quod idem Radulphus clamat fugare
vulpes et lepores infra les Acredykes de Alverstan et Farmanby, dicunt
similiter iidem ministri quod antecessores sui abjudicati fuerunt abinde
in ultimo itinere Justiciariorum istius foreste : ideo quoad hoc et similiter
quod possit capere brueram et feugeram et turbas fodere et eas aspor-
tare, cariare, dare et vendere et omnino voluntatem suam facere, salvis

They further say that Sir Ralph and all his ancestors and the
tenants of the manor of Farmandby have from ancient time had
heather and bracken and cut turves for their own use only and not for
sale, gift or dealing with at pleasure. They also say that he and his
ancestors and all former holders of the manor whose estate he now has
from ancient time have exercised common of pasture for goats at all
times of the year in the woods and moors of Allerston and Farmandby
without adverse claim or hindrance on the part of the foresters or
bailiffs, and have also presented a woodward for their moors and
woods of Allerston and another for those of Farmandby. They likewise
say that judgment was given in the last Eyre of the Justices of the
forest against the claim of the ancestors of Sir Ralph to hunt fox and
hare within the Acred ikes of Allerston and Farmandby. Judgment is
given that Sir Ralph fail in his claim as to this last, and as to taking

* As a general rule I translate tenens manerii as tenant of a manor, tcnens
manerium as one holding a manor, but this rule is not of universal application.

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estoveriis hominibus predictis etc, consideratum est quod idem
Radulphus nichil capiat per clamium suum predictum in hac parte,
set sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo, et quoad residuum tocius
clamii sui habeat idem Radulphus sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum,
salvo semper jure etc.

Alanus filius Alani de Cloghton clamat esse quietus de pannagio
porcorum suorum in Foulwode et Haiburn infra limites foreste omni
tempore anni et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui a tempore
quo non extat memoria racione [302] terrarum suarum quas tenet in
Cloghton et Brinyston que sunt francum feodum, quieti fuerunt de
pannagio ut pertinenti ad terram suam predictam et hoc paratus est
verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas
per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores super hoc
onerati et jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod idem Alanus
et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria racione
terrarum suarum in predictis villis de Cloghton et Bryniston que sunt
francum feodum, semper fuerunt quieti de pannagio porcorum, scilicet
per quindecim dies ante festum Sancti Michaelis et sic usque festum
Sancti Martini in hieme, set dicunt quod nee ipsi nee alii tenentes
earundem villarum de Cloghton et Brinyston, sive fuerint tenentes de
franco feodo sive in socagio unquam fuerunt quieti nee esse debent de
pannagio mense defenso, scilicet per quindecim dies ante festum nativi-
tatis Sancti Johannis Baptiste et per quindecim dies post idem festum
annuatim. Ideo consideratum est quod idem Alanus de pannagio
porcorum suorum per xv dies ante festum Sancti Michaelis et sic usque
festum Sancti Martini annuatim sit quietus imperpetuum, salvo semper

heather and bracken and cutting turves and carrying them away,
giving and selling and dealing as he please with them, but that he
succeed as to the rest.

Alan the son of Alan of Cloughton claims to be quit of pannage
for his pigs in Fulwood and Hayburn, within the limits of the forest,
at all times of the year, and is ready to prove that he and all his
ancestors from ancient time, by reason of their frank fee tenure of
lands in Cloughton and Burniston, have enjoyed quittance of pannage
as appurtenant to their lands. An inquiry is directed and it is found
that Alan and all his ancestors from ancient time, by reason of their
tenure in frank fee of lands in Cloughton and Burniston, have always
been quit of pannage for their pigs from 14 September to 18
November, but that neither they nor any other tenants of Cloughton
and Burniston, whether of frank fee or socage tenure ever were or
ought to be quit of pannage during fence month, that is to say, from
19 June to 9 July. Judgment is given that Alan be for ever quit of

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jure etc, et quoad residuum clamii sui nichil capiat, set sit in miseri-
cordia pro falso clamio suo etc.

Abbas beate Marie Eboracensis clamat habere decimam tocius
venacionis de foresta de Pikeryng imperpetuum, habendum scilicet in
carne et coreis quicumque dictam venacionem ceperit sine labore et
molestia, et quod ipse et successores sui imperpetuum possint capere
vulpem et leporem in foresta predicta sine cujuslibet contradiccione, et
similiter tenere quendam clausum in maresco de Normanby de solo
suo proprio inclusum, et dicit quod dominus Henricus quondam Rex
Anglie progenitor domini Regis nunc concessit Deo et Sancte
Marie Eboracensi et Abbati ejusdem loci predecessori suo imper-
petuum habere totam decimam tocius venacionis sue de Euerwykshira
in carne scilicet et coreis per carlam quam hie profert et que hoc
testatur in hec verba : Henricus Rex Anglie Archiepiscopo Eboracensi
et vicecomiti et omnibus ministris et baronibus de Euerwykshira
Francis et Anglicis salutem. Concedo Deo et Sancte Marie et Abbati
Abbatie Sancte Marie de Euervvyk imperpetuum habere totam decimam
tocius venacionis mee in Euerwykshira in carne scilicet et coreis qui-
cumque capiat et lardarii mei eis liberent totam, et vicecomes meus de
Euerwyk videat ut sine labore et molestia habeant predicti monachi.
Testibus Umfrido Bigcapel Edmundo Dapifero* apud Pikeryng.
Quam quidem concessionem dominus Johannes quondam Rex Anglie
etc. confirmavit. Virtute cujus carte et similiter confirmacionis
predictarum ipse et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti predecessores

pannage from 14 September to 18 November, but fail as to the rest of
his claim.

The Abbot of St. Mary's, York, claims tithe of venison in Pickering
Forest, that is to say in flesh and hide, without toil or trouble, from
any one who may have taken game, and likewise to hunt fox and hare
without objection, and likewise to hold a certain close of his own land in
Normanby Marsh enclosed. He says that Henry I. granted to the Abbey
of St. Mary's, York, the whole of his tithe in Yorkshire in flesh and
hide. He produces the deed ; it runs as follows : — Henry I. to the
Archbishop of York, Sheriff and all officers and barons of Yorkshire,
both Norman and English, greeting. I grant to the Abbey of St.
Mary's, York, the whole tithe of my venison in Yorkshire, in flesh and
hide, no matter who may take it, and my larderers are to deliver it, and
let the Sheriff of Yorkshire see that the monks get it without toil or
hindrance. Witnessed at Pickering by Humphrey Bigcapel and Edmund
the Steward.

This grant King John confirmed; and the present and all former
* Written Daps'.

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sui a tempore concessionis et confirmacionis predictarum usi sunt
habere decimam tocius venacionis foreste predicte in carne et coreis
quicumque earn ceperit sine labore et molestia prout superius clamat.
Et quoad capiendum vulpem et leporem in foresta predicta sine
cujuslibet contradiccione, dicit similiter quod idem dominus J.
quondam Rex Anglie [302b] progenitor domini Regis nunc concessit
et confirmavit cuidam Roberto Abbati loci predicti predecessori suo
quod ipse et successores sui imperpetuum possunt capere vulpem et
leporem in foresta per totam Eboracensem shiram libere sine cujuslibet
contradiccione per cartam ipsius domini Johannis quam hie profert et
que hoc testatur ; unde dicit quod virtute carte predicte ipse et omnes
Abbates loci predicti predecessores sui semper a tempore confeccionis
ejusdem ceperunt leporem et vulpem in foresta predicta que est infra
corpus Comitatus Eboracensis sine cujuslibet contradiccione. Et
quoad tenendum quendam clausum etc, dicit similiter quod ipse et
omnes Abbates loci predicti a tempore quo non extat memoria
tenuerunt clausum predictum inclusum etc. ; et dicit quod in ultimo
itinere Justiciariorum istius foreste compertum fuit per ministros
ejusdem foreste quod clausum predictum non nocens feris domini
foreste predicte, per quod consideratum fuit quod Abbas qui tunc fuit
et successores sui sic imperpetuum tenerent, unde dicit quod eo
warranto clamat ipse habere decimam etc., et capere vulpes etc., et
tenere clausum predictum etc. ; et petit quod clamia sua in hac parte
ei allocentur. Et quia videtur Justiciariis quod expediens est et
necesse ad inquirendum super possessione ipsius Abbatis et predeces-
sorum suorum in hac parte priusquam ad allocacionem clamiorum

Abbots have in right thereof, from the time of the grant and confirmation,
been accustomed to have, without toil or hindrance, the tithe of all the
venison of the forest, whoever might have taken it. He also says that
King John granted and confirmed by deed to one Robert, then Abbot,
that he and his successors might for ever hunt fox and hare in the
forest throughout the whole of Yorkshire without objection from
anyone. He produces the deed, vouches its contents and says that he
and his predecessors have from the date thereof enjoyed the rights
thereunder. He likewise says that he and all former Abbots have
from ancient time held the close of land inclosed, and that in the last
Eyre of the Justices of the Forest the close was found to be no injury
to the deer, and judgment was given that the then Abbot and his
successors might for ever hold it so inclosed. This is the right by
which he claims the liberties, and he prays that they may be allowed.

The Justices think fit to have an inquiry made as to the possession
of the Abbot before allowing his claims. An inquiry is directed and it

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predictorum procedatur, inquiratur inde Veritas per ministros ejusdem
foreste. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati
et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suura quod Abbas qui nunc est
et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti post ultimum iter Justi-
ciariorum istius foreste venerunt ad custodem et forestarium foreste
predicte cum canibus suis et in eorum presencia in foresta predicta
ceperunt tot feras quot pertinebant ad decimam, et eas habuerunt in
carne et coreis et pro voluntate sua asportaverunt, et si forte plures
cepissent feras quam eis pertinuit illo anno pro decima, ille fere allo-
cabantur et adhuc allocantur in proximo anno sequenti pro decima sua.
Requisiti eciam iidem ministri si aliquam feram mortuam aliquo
tempore receperint per aliquam liberacionem nomine decime sue,
dicunt precise quod non, set easdem feras quas ipsimet ceperint et non
alias quascumque. Dicunt eciani quod Abbas qui nunc est et omnes
Abbates loci predicti predecessores sui a tempore confeccionis carte
predicte usi sunt capere vulpem et leporem sine alicujus contradiccione
in foresta ista. Et quoad clausum quem idem Abbas clamat tenere de
solo suo proprio inclusum dicunt iidem ministri super sacramentum
suum quod clausus predictus primo clausus fuit tempore domini
Edwardi nuper Regis Anglie avi domini Regis nunc ante ultimum iter
Justiciariorum istius foreste, set non contra assisam, et similiter
durante toto itinere illo clausus predictus inclusus fuit, set non contra
assisam neque ad nocumentum ferarum domini ejusdem foreste ; et
dicunt quod finito itinere illo statim quidam Abbas loci predicti qui
tunc fuit de novo includere fecit clausum predictum contra assisam
predictaro et ad nocumentum ferarum ejusdem foreste, et annuatim

is found that the present Abbot and his predecessors, after the last
Eyre of the Justices of the Forest, have come with their dogs to the
Keeper and Forester of the Forest, and in their presence taken in the
forest as many deer as amounted to their tithe, and had them in flesh
and hide and carried them away at pleasure ; and if they happened to
take more than the right amount of their tithe the surplus was carried
over to the next year. The officers, being asked whether they ever
received by livery any dead deer in the name of tithe, say distinctly,
no ; they had the deer that they took and no others whatsoever. The
jury further say that from the date of the King's grant the present
Abbot and his predecessors have been wont to catch fox and hare in
the forest without objection. They further say that the close of the
Abbot's own ground, which the Abbot claims to hold inclosed, was
first inclosed in the time of Edward I., before the last Forest Eyre but
not contrary to the Assizes of the Forest, and likewise remained en-
closed during the Eyre, but not contrary to the Assizes of the Forest

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fecit falcare in eodem clauso quaterviginti acras prati precii cujuslibet
acre per annum xijd. ; et dicunt quod omnes Abbates loci predicti
predecessores predicti Abbatis et similiter Abbas qui nunc est semper
hucusque [303] a tempore predicto clausum predictum contra assisam
foreste et ad nocumentum ferarum ejusdem foreste inclusum tenuerunt
et ilium per numerum acrarum predictarum annuatim falcarunt ubi
clausus predictus nunquam ante etc illud falcatus neque eratus
[? aratus] fuit. Ideo idem Abbas quoad capere vulpem et leporem in
foresta eat inde sine die, et quoad residuum dictum est eidem Abbati
quod expectet inde judicium suum apud Pikeryng die Lune proximo
post festum sancti Gregorii Pape. Ad quern diem apud Pikeryng
coram prefatis Justiciariis venit predictus Abbas per attornatum suum,
et deinde datus est eidem Abbati dies de audiendo inde judicio suo
apud Pikeryng die Lune proximo post mensem Pasche. Ad quem diem
venit predictus Abbas per attornatum suum predictum et petit quod
possit admitti ad finem faciendum cum domino pro inclusione,
imbladacione, falcacione et proficuo ejusdem clausi ab ultimo itinere
Justiciariorum istius foreste usque nunc contra assisam foreste, necnon
pro capcione decime sue ferarum ejusdem foreste per tempus pre-
dictum contra formam carte sue istius itineris, et similiter quod dictum
clausum alto fossato * ad voluntatem suam vel alio modo includere
possit et ilium sic inclusum tenere possit sibi et successoribus suis
imperpetuum, et eciam quodam modo t decimam suam predictam

or to the injury of the deer, but immediately after the conclusion of
the Eyre the then Abbott inclosed it afresh contrary to the Assizes of
the Forest and to the injury to the deer, and every year eighty acres
of meadow therein, worth is an acre, were mown. But from that time
the Abbots held it inclosed contrary to the assize of the forest and
to the injury of the deer, and had a number of acres mown therein
every year that never before were mown or tilled. The Abbot is allowed
to catch fox and hare in the forest, but judgment on the rest of his
claim is respited to Monday, 13 March, 1335. Judgment was further
respited to Monday, 15 May following, when the Abbot appeared and
agreed to pay a composition of ^45 (sureties Sir William Playce and
John de Kilvington) for the various offences presented against him ; in

* The Assize of the Forest only permitted inclosure by a low hedge and shallow
ditch.

t I leave this untranslated, because I do not feel sure whether it implies an
alteration in the method of taking tithe. The commentary on this claim in Coke's
" Institutes," Vol. IV. p. 297, is, " as the prior of York claimed by charter to have
tithe of all venison tam in came quam in corio where he ought not to have it in
corio, for which he was fined and enjoyed it in came." I scarcely agree with this
explanation. See Introduction.

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juxta formam ejusdem carte, et pro omnibus aliis transgressionibus,
excessibus, offensis et dampnis tam super ipsum Abbatem in itinere
isto presentatis quam ante sessionem istius itineris non presentatis in
foresta predicta quocumque tempore factis ; et admittitur ad finem
xlv11 per plegium Willelmi Plays militis et Johannis de Kilvyngton etc.
Robertus* filius Willelmi Wyerne et Thomas Thurnyf clamant habere
wodevvardum ad custodiendum boscum suum de Ebreston secundum
assisam foreste, et clamant habere corticem de omnibus quercubus
succisis et per ballivum vel forestarium de Pikeryng alicui liberatis in
bosco de Ebreston, et dicunt quod quidam Thomas de Ebreston
aliquando seisitus de manerio de Ebreston wodewardum et corticem
prout in clamio suo continetur habuit tanquam pertinencia ad manerium
predictum et inde obiit seisitus, post cujus mortem Thomas Alius
ejusdem Thome manerium predictum jure hereditario tenuit et
wodewardum et corticem predicta tanquam pertinencia manerii predicti
habuit : qui quidem Thomas filius Thome de manerio predicto cum
pertinenciis suis postmodum feoffavit quosdam Willelmum Thurnef de
Snaynton et Americum Gryggef de Scardeburgh, qui quidem Willelmus
et Americus de manerio predicto seisiti virtute feoffamenti predicti
fecerunt particionem inter eos de manerio predicto et habuerunt
wodewardum et corticem predicta. Qui quidem Willelmus de porcione
ejusdem manerii feoffavit ipsum Thomam Thurnef, virtute cujus doni

particular for inclosing, tilling, mowing, and making profit out of the
close from the last Forest Eyre up to now contrary to the assize of
the forest, also for taking tithe of the deer during the same time
contrary to the form of grant, likewise for permission to inclose the
land with a deep dyke at his pleasure or in any other way and to
hold it enclosed for ever.

Robert son of William Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef claim a wood-
ward to guard their wood at Ebberston according to the assize of the
forest and the bark of all oaks cut down in Ebberston wood and delivered
to anyone by the bailiff or forester of Pickering. They say that one,
Thomas de Ebberston, who was one seised of the Manor of Ebbers-
ton had the woodward and bark so claimed as appurtenant to his
manor and died seised thereof. After his death his son Thomas held
the manor by right of inheritance and had the woodward and bark as
appurtenant thereto. This Thomas afterwards enfeoffed William
Thurnef, of Snainton, and Amery Grig, of Scarborough, of the manor

* Further proceedings relating to this claim were taken in the King's Bench, and
will be found in Coram Rege Rolls Mich., 21 Edw. III. m. 88, and Easter, 22
Ed. III. m. 40, which it is proposed to print towards the end of this volume.

t Gegge in Coram Rege, 21 Edw. III. m. 88.

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seisitus est de purparte manerii predicti et proficui predictorum tanquam
pertinente medietati manerii predicti, et idem Americus de purparte sua
ejusdem manerii feoffavit Robertum Wyerne avum* ipsius Roberti cujus
heres ipse est, tenendum sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum, virtute
cujus feoffamenti seisitus fuit et inde obiit seisitus, et purpartem wode-
wardi etcorticis tanquam pertinentem medietati [303 b] ejusdem manerii
habuit et inde obiit seisitus. Post cujus mortem Willelmus Wyernef
filius et heres predicti Roberti medietatem manerii predicti intravit et
tenuit tota vita sua, et purpartem suam proficui predicti tanquam
pertinentem etc, cepit et habuit et inde obiit seisitus. Post cujus mortem
medietas manerii predicti una cum purparte proficui predicti ut filius et
heres [sic]X ipsius Willelmi descendebat. Et sic dicunt quod ipsi et
omnes tenentes§ manerii predicti a tempore quo non extat memoria
habuerunt wodewardum in bosco suo predicto et corticem de omnibus
quercubus succisis etc. Et hoc parati sunt verificare prout Curia etc.
Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per ministros ejusdem foreste. Qui scilicet
forestarii, viridarii et regardatores super hoc jurati et onerati dicunt
super sacramentum suum quod omnes tenentes ejusdem manerii|| a
tempore quo non extat memoria habuerunt wodewardum ad boscum
suum custodiendum et ceperunt corticem de omnibus quercubus in
eodem bosco succisis per forestarium et ballivum alicujus libertatisTf
tanquam pertinencia manerii predicti usque ad tempus quod Thomas

with its appurtenances, and they being so seised made partition. William
enfeoffed Thomas Thurneff of his part and Amery enfeoffed Robert
Wyerne, the grandfather of the claimant. After the death of Robert
Wyerne, William Wyerne, his son and heir, entered into one moiety
of the manor, held it during his life, enjoyed the purparty of the
profits as appurtenances thereto and died seised thereof. After his
death the moiety of the manor with the purparty of the profits
descended to the claimant as son and heir of William. Thus they are
prepared to prove that they and all former holders of the manor from
ancient time have had a woodward in the wood and the bark of all
such oaks. An inquiry is directed and it is found that all the holders
of the manor have from ancient time had a woodward to guard their
wood and the barks of all oaks cut by the forester or bailiff and

* This explains the misreading at Vol. II. , N.S., p. 54.

t Here and elsewhere Coram Rege has de Wyerne.

X Coram Rege has ipsi Roberto ut Jilio et heredi.

§ Here also it seems to me impossible to translate tenens as tenant. Coram Rege
has manerium pi edictum.

|| Coram Rege has eundem manerium.

IT Probably the former reading, alicui liberatis, is more correct, although the
reading here also appears in the Coram Rege Roll.

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Ughtred fuit ballivus castri de Pikeryng, tempore quo castrum predictnm
et honor ejusdera fuerunt in seisina domini Edwardi nuper Regis Anglie
patris domini Regis nunc, tempore quo ipsi Thomas Thurnef et
Willelmus Wyerne pater ipsius Roberti cujus heres ipse est fuerunt
tenentes ejusdem manerii* et habuerunt hujusmodi proricua tanquam
pertinencia manerii predicti, quod Matildis de Bruys consanguinea
ipsius Thome et una communariorum ejusdem ville ipsos Thomam et
Willelmum [inde] perturbavit propter manutenentesf ipsius Thome
Ughtred, et predicti Thomas et Willelmus statim postquam castrum de
Pikeryng et honor ejusdem deveniebant ad manus domini Comitis nunc
adepti fuerunt litteram dicti domini Comitis Radulpho de Hastyng
nunc ballivo castri de inquirendo super juribus ipsorum Thome et
Willelmi, coram quo inventa fuit seisina ipsorum Thome et Willelmi,
et similiter tenentes [? tenendum] manerii predicti a tempore quo non
extat memoria tanquam de pertinenciis ejusdem manerii et semper sine
aliqua interrupcione, et virtute ejusdem littere repositi fuerunt in seisina
sua, scilicet habendi wodewardum et corticem in bosco predicto de omni-
bus quercubus predictis et habuerunt. Et post predictum Willelmum
iidem Thomas et Robertus filius et heres ejusdem Willelmi semper
hucusque ea habuerunt tanquam pertinencia ejusdem manerii a tempore
quo non extat memoria. Ideo consideratum est quod predicti Thomas
et Robertus habeant wodewardum et corticem in bosco predicto de
quercubus predictis sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum, salvo semper
jure etc.

delivered to any one as appurtenant to the manor up to the time that
Thomas de Ughtred was bailiff of Pickering Castle, when the Castle
and Honor were in the seisin of King Edward II., at which time
Thomas Thurnef and William Wyerne were the holders of the manor,
when Matilda de Bruce, kinswoman of Thomas de Ughtred and a
commoner of the township at the maintenance of her kinsman dis-
turbed Thomas Thurnef and William Wyerne. The latter directly that
the Castle and Honor came to the hands of the present Earl obtained
from him a letter directing the present bailiff, Ralph de Hastings, to
hold an inquiry as to their rights, before whom the seisin from ancient
time without interruption of Thomas and William and all former holders
of the manor was found and seisin was restored to them. After the
death of William Thomas Thurnef and Robert Wyerne have always
hitherto had seisin. Judgment was given that Thomas and Robert
might have their woodward and bark for ever, without preju-
dice, etc.

* As above. t Coram Rege has manutenenciam.

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Robertus Prior de Bridlington clamat habere sibi et successoribus
suis porcos suos in Scalbia infra metas foreste de Pikeryng quietos ab
omni pannagio. Et dicit quod dominus Henricus quondam Rex
Anglie avus* domini Regis nunc diu antequam dominus Henricus
quondam Rex Anglie proavus domini Regis nunc honorem de Pikeryng,
Scalbiam et forestam domino Edmundo patri Comitis nunc dedit, per
cartam suam quam hie profert et que hoc testatur, concessit et dedit
Canonicis de Bridlyngton quietanciam pannagii de porcis suis in foresta
de Scalbia, et prohibuit ne quis eos vexaret vel disturbaret pro pannagio
illo, unde dicit quod ipse et omnes Priores loci predicti predecessores
sui [304] semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicte virtute ejusdem
carte seisiti sunt de quietancia predicta absque aliqua interrupcione, et
hoc paratus est verificare per ministros foreste prout Curia etc. Et quia
videtur Curie quod expediens est et necesse quod super premissis in-
quiratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et
regardatores ad hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum
quod quoad Haiam de Scallebia in dominicis domini Prior qui nunc
est nee aliquis predecessorum suorum unquam ab antiquo tempore
habuerunt pannagium porcorum suorum in eadem, set dicunt quod
in communia de Scallebia ipse Prior qui nunc est et omnes Priores loci
predicti predecessores sui semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicte
virtute ejusdem carte habuerunt porcos suos quietos ab omni pannagio.
Ideo consideratum est quod idem Prior quoad pannagium habendum in
Haia de Scallebia nichil capiat per clamium suum set sit in misericordia
pro falso clamio suo in hac parte, et quoad pannagium habendum in

Robert, Prior of Bridlington, claims to have his pigs in Scalby
within the forest of Pickering quit of pannage. He says that before
Henry III. granted the Honor of Pickering, Scalby and the forest to
his son Edmund, Henry II. granted to the Canons of Bridlington
quittance of pannage for their pigs in Scalby forest, and forbade anyone
to trouble them in respect thereof. He is ready to prove that he and
all former Priors have always been seised of this quittance since the
date of the grant and in virtue thereof without any interruption. The
court thought fit to direct an inquiry, and it was found that
neither the present Prior nor any of his predecessors ever from
ancient time had [? quittance from] pannage in Scalby Hay, one of
the Earl's demesnes, but that in the commons of Scalby the present
Prior and his predecessors have always from the date of the grant and
by virtue thereof kept pigs quit of pannage. Judgment is given that
the Prior fail as to his claim to have pannage in Scalby Hay and be

* This cannot, of course, be correct. The deed was enrolled and Henry II.
appears to have been the King referred to.

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communia de Scalbia pro porcis suis, quod illud habeat imperpetuum,
salvo semper jure etc.

Decanus et Capitulum ecclesie sancti Petri Eboracensis clamant esse
quieti de herbagio pro se et hominibus suis de Pikeryng, videlicet a
vado quod dicitur Ferwath* usque Alruif, et inde usque Holla, et inde
usque Mirchesik, et inde usque Weledalebek, et inde usque Westblawath,
et inde usque Estshonerhou, et inde inter Rotemur et Grim-
stanwath ex parte occidentali de Keshou usque ad extremitatem vie
que dicitur Aldgate, et deinde usque Middelheved in Suterlund, et sic
usque Rouclif, et sic usque Westguneldburges, et sic usque Berenhou,
et sic usque Westlidyate de Pikeryng, et deinde usque Standand Stan
juxta Hospitalem sancti Nicholai, et inde usque Costa, et sic usque
Alda, et sic ad divisam de Kirkeby Misperton, et sic usque Freredik,
et sic usque Midsyk, et sic in longum Midsyk usque ad divisam
inter Thorntona et Pikeryng, et inde usque ad fundum de Langowe-
dale, et inde usque ad Cutbriggate,f et inde usque ad aquam de
Pikeryng, et inde usque ad Ferwath ; et eciam pro se et hominibus suis
de Pikeryng esse quieti de pannagio in omnibus moris et boscis infra
divisas predictas. Et pro se et hominibus suis de Pikeryng
esse quieti de putura omnium ministrorum foreste de Pikeryng.
Et pro se et hominibus suis de Pikeryng housebote et haibote in

amerced for his false claim, but that he enjoy for ever the right of
pannage for his pigs in the commons of Scalby.

The Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's, York, claim to be quit of
payment for herbage for themselves and their men of Pickering within
these boundaries, namely, from the ford called Farwarth to Alruif,
thence to Holla, thence to Mirk Esk, thence to Wheeldale Beck,
thence to West Blawath, thence to East Shunner Howes, thence to
Redmire and Grimston Wath on the east of Keshow up to the end of
the road called Aldgate, thence to Middlehead in Sutherland, so to
Rawcliffe, so to West Gunald burghs, so to Berenhow, so to West
Lidyatts of Pickering, thence to the standing stone next St. Nicholas's
Hospital, thence to the Costa, so to Alda, so to the boundary of
Kirkby Misperton, so to Friardike, so to Midsike, so along Midsike to
the boundary between Thornton and Pickering, thence to the farm at
Langatdale, thence to Cuthbertgate, thence to Pickering Beck, thence
to Farwath ; and also for themselves and their men of Pickering to be
quit of pannage in all moors and woods within the same boundaries, to
be quit of puture of all officers of the forest of Pickering ; to have house-

* Compare this with the boundaries of Pickering, Vol. I., N.S., p. 23, and Vol. II.,
N.S., p. 214.

t Written both in the Duchy and Exchequer Coucher Outbriggate.

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omnibus boscis et moris infra dictas divisas a dicto vado de Ferwath
usque aquilonem per visum forestariorum ; et similiter capere cablicia
et siccam buscam ad terram prostratam sine visu forestariorum cum
acciderit ad sufficientem de housebote et haibote. Et pro se et
hominibus suis de Pikeryng a dicto vado infra dictas divisas in omnibus
boscis versus austrum extra Haiam de Blandeby subboscum ad campos
et curtilagia sua in Pikeryng claudendos. Et pro se et hominibus suis
de Pikeryng in omnibus boscis infra dictas divisas a dicto vado versus
austrum colligere nuces ad estoveria sua. Et pro se et hominibus suis
de Pikeryng in omnibus boscis infra dictas divisas versus austrum
capere virgas ad utensilia carucarum suarum in Pikeryng. Et dicunt
quoad clamium suum esse quieti de herbagio etc, de pannagio, expedi-
tacione* [304b] canum et de putura omnium ministrorum foreste de
Pikeryng, dicunt quod dominus Henricus quondam Rex f Anglie,
progenitor domini Regis nunc, dedit et concessit Sancto Petro et
cuidam G.f Archiepiscopo Eboracensi ecclesias de Poclyntona, Dryffield,
Kilum, Pikeryng, Burgh et Snayd cum omnibus suis capellis et soca et
sak et consuetudinibus ad eas pertinentibus ; et precepit quod predicte
ecclesie essent quiete, libere in omnibus rebus et consuetudinibus ut
Sanctus Petrus perpetualiter teneat ipsas ecclesias quietas, solutas et
liberas ab omni servicio per cartam suam quam hie profert [sic] et que
hoc testatur. Virtute cujus doni idem G. Eboracensis Archiepiscopus
quietus sit de herbagio pro se et hominibus suis de Pikeryng in foresta
predicta per divisas predictas, et eciam de expeditacione canum, atque

bote and hedgebote in all woods and moors within the said boundaries
to the north of Farwath at view of the foresters; and likewise to
take browsewood and dry wood felled to the ground without view
of the foresters whenever there shall happen to be more than enough
for housebote and hedgebote ; and also to the south of Farwath within
the said boundaries underwood except in Blansby Park for enclosing
their fields and curtilages in Pickering, nuts as estovers and rods for
the harness of their ploughs. As to their claim to be quit of all
payment for herbage and pannage, of lawing of their dogs and of
puture of all officers of Pickering Forest they say that Henry I. granted
to St. Peter and Gerard Archbishop of York the churches of Pock-
lington, Driffield, Kilham, Pickering, Aldborough and Snaith with all
chapels belonging thereto and with soc and sac and all customs ; and
he ordained that the said churches should be quit and free in all
matters and customs so that St. Peter might hold the said churches in
perpetuity free of all service. The deed is produced and its contents

* Not mentioned before. t Henry I.

J Gerard, previously Bishop of Hereford.

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eciam de putura omnium ministrorum foreste de Pikeryng, et dicunt
quod facta permutacione inter predictum Archiepiscopum et tunc
Decanum Capituli Eboracensis de ecclesia predicta pro aliis terris et
tenementis, idem Decanus et Capitulum tunc temporis et omnes
Decani ecclesie predicte et Capitulum a tempore predicto et ipse
similiter virtute carte predicte quieti fuerunt de hujusmodi quietanciis
in clamiis suis contentis et hoc parati sunt verificare prout Curia etc.
Et quoad habendum housebote et haibote pro se et hominibus suis de
Pikeryng in omnibus moris et boscis per divisas predictas, dicunt quod
ipsi sunt persona ecclesie de Pikeryng et tenent unam carucatam terre
que quondam fuit antiquum dominicum Corone Anglie, modo autem
francum feodum, ad quam pertinuerunt housebote et haibote in moris
et boscis suis predictis infra divisas predictas, et sic tanquam pertinencia
terre predicte ab antiquo ipsi et omnes predecessores sui et omnes
persone ibidem perceperunt hujusmodi housebote et haibote, et
similiter cablicia et siccum boscum tanquam eis pertinencia, et hoc
parati sunt verificare etc. Et quoad habendum subboscum pro se et
hominibus suis de Pikeryng extra Haiam de Blandeby ad campos et
curtilagia sua claudendos, et similiter colligere nuces ad estoveria sua,
et capere virgas ad utensilia carucarum suarum, dicunt quod ipsi et
omnes predecessores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria ceperunt
hujusmodi subboscum et collegerunt nuces et ceperunt virgas ad
utensilia etc, tanquam pertinencia ad liberum tenementum suum,
quod est dos ecclesie sue predicte et hoc parati sunt verificare etc.
Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per ministros ejusdem foreste etc.

vouched. By virtue of which grant Archbishop Gerard was quit of
payment for herbage within the said boundaries for himself and his
men of Pickering, and also of lawing of dogs and also of puture of all
officers of Pickering Forest. Afterwards an exchange was made
between the said Archbishop and the then Dean and Chapter of York
of the said church for other lands, and they are ready to prove that the
Dean and Chapter have ever enjoyed the quittances claimed. Further,
they say that they are the rectors of Pickering church and hold a
carucate of land, which formerly was ancient demesne but now is frank
fee, to which there appertained housebote and hedgebote in the woods
and moors within the said boundaries. They are ready to prove that
they and their predecessors have from old time received such manner
of housebote and hedgebote, and likewise browsewood and drywood as
appurtenant to the said land. They further say that they and their
predecessors have from ancient time taken underwood for themselves and
their men of Pickering, outside Blandsby Park, to inclose their fields
and curtilages, and likewise gathered nuts as estovers and taken poles for

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Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores super hoc jurati et
onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quoad hoc quod predictus
Decanus et Capitulum clamant esse quieti de herbagio pro se et
hominibus suis infra divisas predictas, et similiter de pannagio, ex-
peditacione canum et putura omnium ministrorum foreste predicte.*
Et quoad habendum housebote et haibote et capere cablicia et siccum
boscum dicunt quod iidem Decanus et Capitulum et omnes predeces-
sores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria ceperunt housebote et
haibote per divisas in predicto clamio suo contentas per visum
forestariorum et similiter [305] cablicia et siccum boscum ad terram
prostratam sine visu forestariorum habuerunt, si autem forestarii feodi
venerint et subboscum predictum et cablicia manu operaverint [?].
Dicunt eciam quod iidem Decanus et Capitulum et omnes predeces-
sores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria semper habuerunt sub-
boscum prout clamant ad campos et curtilagia sua in Pikeryng
claudendos et similiter virgas ad utensilia carucarum suarum in
Pikeryng prout clamant, et hoc per visum forestariorum, et similiter
colligere nuces per divisas predictas prout clamant, Ideo quoad clamium
Decani et Capituli quod capere debent virgasf ad utensilia carucarum
suarum in Pikeryng per divisas predictas consideratum est quod iidem
Decanus et Capitulum nichil capiant in hac parte, set sint in misericordia
pro falso clamio suo ;\ et quoad ceteras quietancias et libertates in

harness of their ploughs, all as appurtenant to their free tenement, the
dowry of their church. This they are ready to prove and an inquiry is
directed. The jury find that the claims of the Dean and Chapter to be
quit of payment for herbage with the limits aforesaid for themselves
and their men, and likewise of pannage, lawing of dogs and puture of
all the officers of the forest [have been proved]. They say that the Dean
and Chapter and their predecessors have from ancient time taken
housebote and hedgebote with the limits mentioned in the claim at
view of the foresters, and likewise had browsewood and dry wood felled
to the ground without view of the foresters, but only if the foresters of
fee came and cut the underwood and browsewood. They also say
that the Dean and Chapter and their predecessors have from ancient
time had the underwood claimed for enclosing their fields and
curtilages in Pickering, and likewise poles for the harness of their
ploughs (but this at view of the foresters) and likewise the right of
collecting nuts within the boundaries claimed. Judgment is given that

* Probably an omission here which appears from the judgment.

t Cp. with karz ad carucas, Vol. I., N S., page 3, and Vol. II., N.S., page xii.

X I apprehend that the ground of disallowance was that they claimed the right as
being capable of exercise without view of the foresters, while the verdict found that
it had only been exercised with view.

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130 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

clamio suo contentas eas habeant et gaudeant sibi et successoribus suis
imperpetuum, salvo semper jure etc.

Radulphus de Bolmere clamat habere liberum parcum suum apud
Torenton qui vocatur Riseberg, et ad habendum canes in predicta villa
de Torenton ad currendum in parco predicto, et dicit quod dominus
J. quondam Rex Anglie progenitor domini Regis nunc per cartam suam
dedit et concessit cuidam Alano de Wylton tunc tenenti parci predicti et
heredibus suis licenciam claudendi parcum predictum et facere inde par-
cum liberum ; et quod haberet canes in predicta villa de Torenton ad cur-
rendum in parco illo : virtute cujus carte dictus Alanus dictum parcum
inclusit et liberum tenuit, et canes habuit in predicta villa ad currendum
in eodem parco, cujus quidem Alani statum ipse Radulphus modo
habet. Et dicit quod dominus E. nuper Rex Anglie pater domini
Regis nunc donacionem et concessionem dicti domini J. quondam
Regis Anglie etc, inspexit, et concessit eidem Radulpho quod ipse et
heredes sui habeant et teneant parcum ilium cum pertinenciis suis
prout predictus Alanus eum habuit virtute carte predicte sine occasione
vel impedimento ipsius Regis vel heredum suorum, Justiciariorum,
Escaetorum, Vicecomitum aut aliorum ballivorum seu ministrorum
Regis quorumcumque ; unde dicit quod sic tenet ipse parcum suum
predictum inclusum et similiter canes in predicta villa de Torenton ad
currendum in eodem, et petit quod clamium suum ei in hac parte
allocetur. Et quia videtur Curie quod expediens est et necesse quod
inquiratur per ministros foreste super possessione et visu ipsius
Radulphi in hac parte priusquam clamium suum predictum ei allocetur,
ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii viridarii
et regardatores ad hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum
suum quod predictus Alanus de Wylton virtute carte predicti Regis
Johannis parcum predictum inclusit et liberum tenuit, et habuit canes

the Dean and Chapter fail as to their claim to take poles for the
harness of their ploughs, but succeed as to the rest of the quittances
and rights claimed.

Ralph de Bulmer claims to have a free park at Thornton Rise-
borough, and to keep hounds to hunt there. He claims that King
John by deed granted to one Alan de Wilton, then holder of the park,
and his heirs, liberty to inclose and make a free park and to keep
hounds to hunt there ; by virtue whereof Alan, whose estate he now
holds, exercised the rights. He says that Edward II. inspected the
grant of John and granted to Ralph that he and his heirs might hold
the park with its appurtenances as Alan held it, without let or
hindrance on the part of the King or his heirs, or his Justices,
Escheators, Sheriffs, or other bailiffs or officers whatsoever. He says

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suos in villa de Torenton ad currendum in eodem toto tempore suo.
Et dicunt quod idem Radulphus similiter semper a tempore parous
predictus in manus suas exquisito suo devenit, tenuit parcum pre-
dictum inclusum et liberum, et canes suos in predicta villa de Torenton
ad currendum in eodem sine aliqua interrupcione prout superius
clamat. Ideo idem Radulphus habeat et teneat parcum suum predictum
inclusum et liberum, et canes suos in predicta villa de [305b] Torenton
ad currendum in eodem sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum, salvo
semper jure etc.

Thomas de Pikeryng et Margareta uxor ejus clamant habere in
dominico bosco suo de Lokton wodewardum ad custodiendum boscum
suum predictum ; et quod nullus in eo amputet aut prostrare faciat
arborem aliqualem sine voluntate sua ; et quod ipsimet in dicto bosco
possunt prostrare et dare pro voluntate sua arbores virides et siccas, et
dare et vendere arbores siccas pro voluntate sua sine visu forestariorum ;
et quod ipsimet possunt fodere turbas in mora sua de Lokton, et
ibidem eradicare brueram, et dictas turbas et brueram vendere et dare
pro voluntate sua ; et quod ipsi pro se et tenentibus suis debent
habere housebote et haibote secundum assisam foreste in com muni
bosco de Lokton.

Et dicunt quod manerium de Lokton aliquando fuit in seisina
cujusdam Alani Malkake in dominico suo ut de feodo, post cujus
mortem manerium predictum simul cum aliis terris et tenementis jure
hereditario descendebat Alicie, Johanne et ipsi Margarete filiabus et
heredibus suis, factaque particione terrarum et tenementorum que

that so he now holds the park and keeps hounds, and he prays that his
claim may be allowed. An inquiry is directed and the jury find that
Alan exercised these rights without interruption from the date of the
grant, and likewise Ralph from the time when he acquired the estate.
Judgment is given allowing the claim.

Thomas de Pickering and Margaret, his wife, claim to have a
woodward to keep their demesne wood at Lockton, and that no one
may lop branches therein or fell any tree without their consent,
and that they may fell and give away at pleasure green trees and dry
and give and sell dry trees at pleasure without view of the foresters,
and may cut turves in Lockton Moor and uproot heather, and sell and
give the turves and heather at pleasure ; and that they ought to have
for themselves and their tenants housebote and hedgebote according to
the assize of the forest in the common wood of Lockton. They say that
the manor of Lockton was once in the seisin of one Alan Malcake, in
his demesne as of fee. After his death the manor, with other lands
and tenements, descended to his daughters and co-heiresses, Alice,

k 2

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fuerunt predicti Alani, manerium predictum integre assignatum fuit ipsi
Margarete tanquam in purparte sua tenementorum predictorum. Et
dicunt quod ipsi et similiter predictus Alanus et omnes antecessores
ipsius Alani tenentes manerium predictum a tempore quo non extat
memoria usi sunt semper libertatibus predictis in clamiis suis contentis
tanquam pertinentibus manerio predicto ; et hoc parati sunt veri-
ficare prout Curia consideraverit. Et quia videtur Justiciariis quod
expediens est et necesse ad inquirendum super premissis rei veritatem
antequam ad allocacionem clamii predicti procedatur, ideo inquiratur
inde Veritas per ministros ejusdem foreste. Qui scilicet forestarii,
viridarii et regardatores super hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod iidem Thomas et Margareta et omnes antecessores
ipsius Margarete tenentes manerium predictum habuerunt wodewardum
in bosco suo predicto de Lokton ad ilium custodiendum, et similiter
foderunt turbas in mora predicta et eradicarunt brueram, et dictas
turbas et brueram et siccum boscum habuerunt in bosco predicto et
vendiderunt et dederunt pro voluntate sua, et similiter habuerunt pro se
et tenentibus predictis housebote et haibote in communi bosco predicto
secundum assisam foreste. Ideo quoad hoc consideratum est quod
iidem Thomas et Margareta ea habeant et gaudeant sibi et heredibus
suis imperpetuum salvo semper jure etc. Et iidem ministri quoad
residuum clamii predicti dicunt quod forestarii de feodo a tempore quo
non extat memoria tempore hiemali prostraverunt viridum boscum in
bosco predicto pro victu ferarum sine licencia sua ; et similiter dicunt
quod iidem Thomas et Margareta nee aliquis seu aliqui antecessorum
ipsius Margarete unquam prostraverunt viridum boscum nisi per visum
forestariorum tantum. Ideo super hoc consideratum est quod iidem
Thomas et Margareta nichil capiant in hac parte, set sint in miseri-
cordia pro falso clamio suo etc.

Joan and Margaret, and partition having been made, the manor fell to
Margaret. They are ready to prove that Alan and his ancestors have
from ancient time exercised the rights claimed. An inquiry is directed
and the Jury find that Thomas and Margaret and the ancestors of
Margaret, while holding the manor, had a woodward in their wood at
Lockton to keep it, and likewise cut turves in the moor and uprooted
heather, and had the turves, heather and dry wood in the wood, and
sold and gave them away at pleasure, and likewise had housebote
and hedgebote in the common wood at Lockton for themselves and
their tenants. Judgment is therefore given that the claimants succeed
on these points. But the Jury say as to the rest of the claim that the
foresters of fee have from ancient time in winter felled green hue in
the wood without their leave for food for the deer, and likewise that

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[306] Thomas de Pikeryng et Margareta uxor ejus clamant quod*
nullus amputet aut prostrare faciat arborem aliqualem in dominico
bosco suo de Lokton contra voluntatem suam, nisi forestarii de feodo
pro victu ferarum foreste et quod ipsimet per assisam foreste possunt
prosternere boscum pro housebote et haibote, et cum prostratum fuerit
dare et illud cariare pro voluntate sua. Et dicunt quod ipsi et omnes
antecessores ipsius Margarete tenentes manerium de Lokton a tempore
quo non extat memoriaf in clamio suo contends, et hoc parati sunt
verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas
per eosdern. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores dicunt
super sacramentum suum quod predicti Thomas et Margareta et omnes
antecessores ipsius Margarete tenuerunt [? tenentes] manerium predic-
tum a tempore quo non extat memoria usi fuerunt hujusmodi libertate
quod nullus amputavit aut prosternere fecit aliqualem arborem in dicto
bosco suo de Lokton contra voluntatem suam nisi forestarii de feodo
pro victu ferarum et quod ipse per assisam foreste prostraverunt boscum
pro housebote et haibote et cum prostratum fuisset dederunt illud et
cariarunt pro voluntate sua, prout iidem Thomas et Margareta superius
clamant. Ideo consideratum est quod iidem Thomas et Margareta
easdem libertates in clamio suo predicto contentas habeant et gaudeant
sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum salvo semper jure etc.

Abbasf de Rievalle clamat in maneriis suis de Kekmareys, Lund,
Neustede, Loftmareys cum pertinenciis suis domos et bercarias
edificare et terras in maneriis predictis pro voluntate sua in culturam

neither Thomas nor Margaret nor any of the ancestors of Margaret
ever felled green hue except only at view of the foresters. Therefore
judgment is given that the claimants fail as to this.

The same claimants claim that no one may cut branches or fell any
tree within their demesne wood at Lockton against their will, except
the foresters of fee for food for the deer of the forest, and that they
may fell wood for housebote and hedgebote according to the assize of
the forest, and when it is felled may give and carry it away at pleasure.
They say that they and all the ancestors of Margaret have exercised
these rights from time immemorial, and the Jury find that such is the
case. Judgment is given allowing the claim.

The Abbot of Rievaulx claims the right of building houses and
sheepfolds and of bringing land into cultivation within the manors of
Kekke Marishes, Lund, Newstead, and Loft Marishes ; and that no

* Having failed in their first claim, the claim is amended and eventually allowed.
+ Certain words are omitted here which it is not difficult to supply.
J This is the later claim referred to at p. 90, ante. See also Surtees Society,
Vol. LXXXIIL, p. 415, where the Patent Rolls are copied.

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redigere et excercere; et eciam quod nullus minister aut alius
forestarius se quicquam in maneriis predictis intromittat, nisi* tantum
de venacione, preter ipsum Abbatem et ministros suos ; et eciam
agistare pro voluntate sua in maneriis predictis. Et quoad hoc, quod
clamat in maneriis suis doraos et bercarias edificare, et terras in
predictis maneriis pro voluntate sua in culturam redigere et excercere,
(et) dicit quod quidam Abbas, predecessor suns, qui jam obiit durante
itinere isto, aliast posuit clamium predictum et dicit J quod dominus
Henricus, quondam Rex Anglie, progenitor domini Regis nunc, dedit
et carta sua confirmavit Deo et Sancte Marie et Ecclesie sue de
Rievalle et Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus pro anima gloriosi
Regis Henrici, avi sui, et pro anima patris sui et matris sue et fratrum
suorum (et pasturam subtus Pikeryng cum pertinenciis suis)§ et anime
sue et filiorum suorum in liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam
totum vastum suum et totam pasturam subtus Pikeryng cum
pertinenciis suis, in quo quidem vasto maneria predicta modo situata
sunt, in pratis et pasturis, in aquis et piscariis et molendinis, et in
omnibus aliis rebus, per certas metas in eadem carta contentas ;
concessit eciam quod infra ipsas divisas domos et bercarias ibidem
edificent et terram suam ibidem colere et excercere pro voluntate sua,
et pretendit hoc verificare prout Curia consideraverit, et postmodum
per ministros ipsius foreste compertum fuit quod idem Abbas et omnes
predecessores sui loci predicti semper a tempore donacionis et con-
firmacionis carte predicte, virtute ejusdem, usi fuerunt [306 b] doraos
et bercarias ibidem edificare et terram suam ibidem colere et excercere
pro voluntate sua, per quod consideratum fuit quod idem Abbas

forester or other officer, but only the Abbot and his officers, has any
right to intermeddle therewith, except only with regard to game ; he
likewise claims the right of agisting. He says that his predecessor,
who died since the commencement of the Eyre, on another occasion
made his claim on the ground that King Henry II. granted in
frankalmoign to the Church of St. Mary and monks of Rievaulx,
for the souls of his grandfather Henry I. and of himself, his father,
mother, brothers and sons, the whole waste and pasturage below
Pickering, in which waste the said manors are now situated, together
with the meadows, pastures, waters, fisheries and mills, according
to the boundaries specified in the deed of gift. He also granted to
them the right within these boundaries of building houses and sheep-
folds and bringing land into cultivation at their pleasure. The late

* Inserted by a later hand. t P- 9°. onte. t Dixit in Patent Roll.

§ In the Duchy Coucher the word vacat in a later hand is written over these words,
which do not occur in the Patent Rolls.

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libertatem predictam haberet et gauderet sibi et successoribus suis
imperpetuum, etc, et de hoc vocat recordum rotulorum istius
itineris, etc. Et inspectis rotulis predictis hoc idem compertum
est in eisdem. Ideo idem Abbas quoad hoc inde sine die, salvo
semper jure, etc. Et quoad clamium quod idem Abbas qui nunc est
facit quod nullus minister foreste aut alius forestarius se quicquam in
maneriis predictis intromittat, excepto tantum de venacione, preter
ipsum Abbatem et ministros suos, et quod agistere possit pro voluntate
sua in eisdem dicit quod idem dominus Henricus, quondam Rex
Anglie, progenitor domini Regis nunc, per cartam suam predictam
quam hie profert, prohibuit ne aliquis infra predictas metas cum averiis
intrare vel turbam fodere vel in aliqua re se intromittere nullo modo
presumeret sine licencia et voluntate eorum super forisfacturam suam,
et quod hec omnia optinerent in liberam elemosinam, bene et in pace,
honorifice, integre et plenarie, sicut Rex Henricus avus ipsius Regis ea
tenuit in dominico suo die quo fuit vivus et mortuus, libera et quieta
de omni terreno servicio, virtute cujus carte Abbas qui nunc est et
similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti, predecessores sui, semper a
tempore confeccionis ejusdem carte usi sunt hujusmodi libertatibus,
quod nullus minister foreste de Pikeryng aut alius forestarius quicumque,
se quicquam in maneriis predictis intromittat, preter ipsum Abbatem
et ministros suos, et similiter quod agistare possit averia quecumque in
maneriis predictis infra vastum predictum pro voluntate sua : et hoc
paratus est verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste prout Curia etc.
Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem etc. Qui scilicet forestarii,
viridarii et regardatores, super hoc onerati et jurati, dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum, quoad clamium quod idem Abbas facit quod nullus
minister foreste aut alius forestarius quicumque se quicquam in
maneriis predictis intromittat preter ipsum Abbatem et ministros suos,

Abbot attempted to prove this, and the verdict of the jury was in his
favour; judgment, therefore, was given that his claim should be
allowed. The rolls of the Eyre having been searched, and the
statement of the present Abbot found correct, his claim is allowed.

He further pleads that Henry II., by deed which he produces,
forbade any one entering within the boundaries of the monks with
beasts, or cutting turves, or intermeddling in any manner without
license, on penalty of forfeiture ; and that they obtained the lands in
frankalmoign, well, peaceably, honestly, wholly and fully as King
Henry I. held them in demesne on his deathbed, free and quit of all
lay service, by virtue whereof he and his predecessors from the date of
the grant have enjoyed these liberties that no officer of Pickering
Forest or other forester, except only the Abbot and his officers, inter-

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quod ministri foreste predicte, a tempore quo non extat memoria, se
intromiserunt in maneriis predictis tam de regardo et leporibus ibidem
captis, quam de venacione. Ideo quoad hoc consideratum est quod
idem Abbas nichil capiat per clamium suum in hac parte, set sit in
misericordia pro falso clamio suo. Et quoad clamium suum quod
agistare in maneriis predictis debet pro voluntate sua, dicunt iidem
ministri quod Abbas qui nunc est, et similiter omnes Abbates loci
predicti, predecessores predicti Abbatis qui nunc est, a tempore con-
feccionis carte predicte et virtute ejusdem usi sunt agistare in maneriis
predictis pro voluntate sua prout superius clamat. Ideo consideratum
est quod idem Abbas eat inde sine die,* salvo semper jure etc.

Abbas de Rievalle clamat esse quietus in maneriis suis de Marreys
— scilicet, Loftmarreys, Lund, Neusted et Kekmarreys de expedita-
cione canum, et de omnibus aliis assisis foreste, preter de venacione,
regardo et capcione leporum : et dicit quod idem dominus Henricus,
quondam Rex Anglie, progenitor domini Regis nunc, dedit et carta
[307] sua confirmavit Deo et Sancte Marie et Ecclesie sue de Rievalle
et monachis ibidem Deo servientibus pro anima gloriosi Regis avi sui
et pro anima patris sui et matris sue et fratrum suorum et anime sue
et filiorum suorum in liberam puram et perpetuam elemosinam totum
vastum suum et totam pasturam suam subtus Pikeryng cum pertinen-
ciis suis ; in quo quidem vasto maneria predicta modo situata sunt, in
pratis et pasturis, etc, et in omnibus aliis rebus per certas metas in
eadem carta contentas, hec optinenda in liberam elemosinam etc, et

meddles with the manors, and likewise that he may agist at pleasure
in the manors within the waste. An inquiry is directed, and it is
found that the officers of Pickering Forest, from time immemorial, have
intermeddled with the manors, as well in holding a regard and prevent-
ing the taking of hares as with respect to game. Therefore judgment
is given that the Abbot fail in this claim. The jury further say that
the present Abbot and his predecessors, from the date of the grant,
have been accustomed to agist at pleasure in the manors, as he claims
above. Therefore this claim is allowed.

The Abbot of Rievaulx claims to be quit in his manors of the
Marishes, namely, Loft Marishes, Lund, Newstead, and Kekke
Marishes, of the lawing of dogs, and of all other assises of the forest,
except those relating to game, regards, and hare-hunting. He says
that Henry II. granted to the monks of Rievaulx in frankalmoign the
whole waste and pasture below Pickering in which the manors are now
situated, free of tementale, danegeld, and all aids, assises, gelds,

* The Patent Rolls have here, illud clamium habeat et gaudeat sibi et success-
oribus suis impertuum.

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quieta de omni tementale,* danegelda et omnibus auxiliis et assisis et
geldis, et omnibus consuetudinibus et occasionibus et placitis, et de
omni servicio terreno quod sibi et successoribus suis unquam pertinuit
per cartam predictam quam hie profert et que hoc testatur ; et dicit
quod virtute carte predicte ipse et omnes Abbates loci predicti prede-
cessores sui semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicte hucusque
quieti fuerunt in maneriis predictis de expeditacione canum et de
omnibus aliis assisis foreste predicte j et hoc paratus est verificare per
ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem
etc. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc onerati et
jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod a tempore quo non extat
memoria semper presentatum fuit ad attachiamenta istius foreste de
canibus predicti Abbatis et predecessorum suorum in maneriis suis del
Marreis non expeditatis, et aliquando ministri ejusdem foreste acces-
serunt ibidem ad canes predictos videndos, set idem Abbas nee aliquis
predecessorum suorum unquam aliquid solverunt seu finem fecerunt
cum eis pro ipsis non expeditatis, et licet idem Abbas vel predecessores
sui amerciati fuissent hac de causa, tamen aliquando per donumf
suum custodi castri vel ejus locum tenenti qui pro tempore fuerit
datum, et aliquando per favorem eorundem nichil solverunt.

IdeoJ dictum est eidem Abbati quod expectet inde judicium suum
hie die Lune proximo post mensem Pasche. Ad quem diem apud
Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de

customs, prosecutions, pleas and lay services towards himself and his
successors. He produces the deed and vouches its contents. He is
ready to prove that he and all former Abbots have by virtue thereof
enjoyed the quittances claimed. An inquiry is directed, and it is found
that from time immemorial presentments have always been made at
the Attachment Courts with regard to the dogs of the Abbots in the
manors of the marishes not being lawed, and at times the officers of
the forest have gone there to view the dogs, but neither the Abbot nor
any of his predecessors ever paid a fine or made a composition for not
lawing them. Even though they were fined, sometimes by bribing the
keeper of the Castle or his lieutenant, and sometimes by their good-
will, they never paid the fine. Judgment is reserved until Monday,

* This word, which is a corruption of tien man tale, originally implied that ten
men were to be sureties one for the other, a later development of which was the
law that every man was to be in a tithing. Afterwards it appears to have been the
name for a tax of 2s. on every carucate ; see Roger Hoveden, ann. 1194, p. 737.
Du Cange, s.v. Tenmantale, suggests that most probably the tithing, as a whole,
was liable for the tax imposed on its several members.

t For an instance of such a gift being accounted for, see Vol. II., N.S., p. 26.

X The verdict of the jury must have been given on March 13, 1335.

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Hambury justiciariis etc, venit predictus Abbas per attornatum suum
et super hoc datus est eis [? ei] dies hie die Martis proximo post tres
septimanas Sancti Michaelis de audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad quern
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wilughby et Johanne
de Shardelowe venit predictus Abbas per attornatum suum, et super
hoc datus est eis dies hie die Jovis proximo post octabas Purifica-
cionis beate Marie de judicio suo inde audiendo. Ad quem diem
apud Pikeryng coram predicto Johanne de Hambury venit Ricardus
de la Pole et protulit breve domini Regis patens, quod alibi irrotu-
latur, per quod breve dominus Rex constituit ipsum Ricardum loco
predicti Johannis de Shardelowe ad itinerandum in foresta ista simul
cum aliis Justiciariis, duobus vel uno eorum. Mandavit eciam dominus
Rex quoddam breve clausum prefatis Justiciariis, duobus vel uni
eorum de ipso Ricardo de la Pole in socium [loco] predicti Johannis
de Shardelowe admittendo quod similiter alibi irrotulatur : virtute
cujus brevis predictus Johannes de Hambury admisit predictum
Ricardum de la Pole loco predicti Johannis de Shardelowe in socium
ad premissa [307b] facienda etc. Et predictus Abbas venit per
attornatum suum : et datus est ei dies hie etc, die Mercurii proximo
post festum Ascensionis Domini de judicio suo in hac parte audiendo.
Ad quem diem loquela predicta remansit sine die per absenciam
Justiciariorum etc. Postea dominus Rex mandavit prefato Ricardo de
Wylughby, Roberto de Hungerford, Johanne de Hambury et Ricardo
de la Pole breve suum de itinere predicto resumendo, quod quidem
breve alibi in isto itinere irrotulatur : ita quod placita et processus
ejusdem itineris inchoata et non discussa essent hie ad hunc diem
etc, scilicet die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Andree Apostoli
anno regni domini Regis nunc decimo, in eodem statu in quo fuerunt
predicto die Mercurii post festum Ascensionis Domini proxime pre-
terito apud Pikeryng quo die remanserunt sine die per absenciam

15 May, 1335, and afterwards until Tuesday, 31 October, 1335, and
then until Thursday, 15 February, 1336, when Richard de la Pole was,
as stated at p. 70, appointed a Justice in the place of John de Sharde-
lowe. Judgment was then reserved until Wednesday, 22 May, 1336,
on which day all the pleas and other proceedings abated in conse-
quence of the absence of all the Justices.

Afterwards the King, as stated at p. 71, directed the Eyre to be
revived, and the Abbot was summoned on Monday, 2 December, 1336.
Judgment was then given that, having regard to the quittances which
the Abbot and his predecessors had enjoyed by virtue of the grant
from King Henry II., in the waste and pasture beneath Pickering, in
which the manors are situated, and having regard to the fact that they

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Justiciariorum predictorum alibi de mandato Domini Regis existen-
cium, ad procedendum ulterius etc., prout etc. Et modo apud
Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de
Hambury Justiciariis predicto die Lune proximo post festum Sancti
Andree venit predictus Abbas resumonitus in propria persona sua et
petit judicium super veredicto clamii sui predicti. Et quia manifeste
liquet Curie per cartam domini Regis Henrici predictam quod idem
Abbas et omnes Abbates loci illius predecessores predicti Abbatis qui
nunc est, quieti esse debent in vasto et pastura subtus Pikeryng, in
quibus maneria predicta modo situata sunt, de omnibus geldis, con-
suetudinibus et placitis, et de omni terreno servicio et omnibus aliis
assisis foreste que geldabiles censentur, tam de expeditacione canum
quam de aliis geldis quibuscumque ; et compertum est per ministros
istius foreste quod nee Abbas qui nunc est, nee aliquis predecessorum
suorum unquam aliquid solverunt alicui, sive Regi sive Comiti qui pro
tempore fuerit, a tempore confeccionis carte predicte, sive finem
fecerunt pro canibus suis ibidem non expeditatis, et dominus Rex per
breve suum mandavit prefatis Justiciariis hie quod ipsi ipsum Abbatem
de hujusmodi expeditacione canum infra metas et divisas vasti et
pasture predictarum quietum esse permittant, prout hide quietius
[? quietus] esse debet, et ipse et predecessores sui, Abbates loci pre-
dicti, a tempore confeccionis carte predicte inde quieti esse con-
sueverunt : consideratum est quod idem Abbas eat inde sine die, salvo
semper jure, etc.

Abbas de Rievalle clamat habere piscariam pro voluntate sua in
aqua de Costa a loco ubi le Freredyk supra Belynause cadit in Costam
descendendo usque ad locum ubi le Lowndyke cadit in Costam ; et
dicit quod ipse et omnes predecessores sui, Abbates ejusdem loci, a
tempore quo non extat memoria, piscati fuerunt in aqua predicta per
divisas predictas, tanquam in communi suo qui pertinet ad liberum
tenementum suum que est terra hidata de Kekmarreys et Neustede, et
hoc paratus est verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inqui-
ratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et

had never paid any fine to King or Earl since the date of the grant, or
made any composition for not lawing their dogs, and since the King
had by writ commanded the Justices to acquit the Abbot of such law-
ing of their dogs within the metes and bounds of the waste, as he
ought to be, and as he and his predecessors have ever been from the
date of the grant, the claim of the Abbot was allowed.

The Abbot of Rievaulx claims a free fishery in the Costa, from the
spot where the Friardyke, above Belynause, falls into the Costa, down
to the spot where the Lowndike falls into the Costa. He is ready to

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regardatores ad hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum
quod Abbas qui nunc est et similiter omnes Abbates loci predicti,
predecessores sui, a tempore quo non extat memoria piscati fuerunt in
aqua predicta de Costa per divisas predictas, ut in communi suo perti-
nenti ad liberum tenementum suum que est terra hidata [308] in
Loftmarreys et Neustede, prout idem Abbas supponit. Ideo idem
Abbas eat inde sine die salvo semper jure etc.

Adam de Bryniston clericus clamat esse quietus de pannagio por-
corum suorum in Foulwode et Haiburn infra limites foreste omni
tempore anni, et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui a tempore
quo non extat memoria racione terrarum et tenementorum que habet
in villa de Brinyston, que sunt francum feodum, quiete fuerunt de
pannagio ut pertinente ad liberum tenementum suum predictum, et hoc
paratus est verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur
inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores
ad hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod idem
Adarn et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat memoria
racione terrarum et tenementorum suorum predictorum fuerunt quieti
de pannagio, scilicet per quindecim dies ante festum Sancti Michaelis
annuatim usque festum Sancti Martini in hyeme tanquam pertinente
ad terras et tenementa sua predicta ; set dicunt quod nee ipse nee
aliquis antecessorum suorum, nee aliqui tenentes ejusdem ville, sive
fuerunt de franco feodo sive de socagio, unquam fuerunt quieti de
pannagio mense defenso. Ideo consideratum est quod ipse Adam de
pannagio porcorum suorum per quindecim dies ante festum Sancti
Michaelis et sic usque festum Sancti Martini sit quietus, salvo semper
jure etc. ; et quoad residuum clamii sui nichil capiat in hac parte set
sit in misericordia pro falso clamio suo etc.

prove that he and all, former Abbots have from time immemorial fished
in the stream between the boundaries mentioned as a common of fishery
appurtenant to his geldable land of Kekkemarsh and Newstead. An
inquiry is directed, and it is found to have been so. The claim is allowed.
Adam de Burniston claims to be quit of pannage for his pigs in
Fullwood and Hayburn within the forest. He is ready to prove that,
in virtue of his lands of frank fee tenure which he holds in Burniston,
he and his ancestors from time immemorial have been so quit. An
inquiry is directed, and it is found that Adam and his ancestors have
been quit of pannage from the 14th of September up to Martinmas.
But the Jury say that neither he nor any of his ancestors, nor any
tenants of the township, whether of frank fee or of socage tenure,
have ever been quit of pannage in the fence month. Judgment is
given in accordance with the verdict.

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Prior Hospitalis Sancii Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia et Fratres
Hospitalis predicti clamant quod ipsi et eorum homines habeant et
teneant omnes possessiones et elemosinas suas subscriptas, videlicet
quod bosci eorum ad aliqua opera Regis nullo modo capiantur. Et
quod ipsi libere et sufficienter sine qualibet occasione capere possint de
omnibus boscis suis ad usus domus sue quicumque [? quandocumque]
voluerint, nee propter hoc in forisfactura de vasto vel in misericordia
ponantur. Et quod omnes terre et assarta sua et hominum suorum
sint quieta de vasto et regardo et de visu forestariorum et de omnibus
aliis consuetudinibus. Et quod iidem Fratres de omnibus boscis suis
quos habent infra metas foreste possint assartare et excolere sine licencia
Regis vel heredum suorum vel ballivorum suorum ; ita quod inde in
nullo ab ipso Rege vel heredibus suis aut ballivis eorum occasionentur.
Et quod ipsi Fratres et homines sui proprii quieti sint de expeditacione
canum suorum imperpetuum. Et si aliquis hominum suorum sit amer-
ciatus erga dominum Regem vel ballivos suos pro quacumque causa
vel delicto misericordie et amerciamenta sint ipsorum Fratrum. Et
dicit quod dominus Henricus quondam Rex Anglie, proavus domini
Regis nunc, per cartam suam concessit et confirmavit Deo et beate
Marie et Sancto Johanni et Fratribus Hospitalis Sancti Johannis
Jerusalem in Anglia libertates predictas in clamio predicto contentas
quas quidem concessionem et confirmacionem dominus Rex* nunc
recitando eas per cartam suam eisdem Priori et Fratribus concessit et
confirmavit ; unde dicunt quod virtute carte predicte ipsi Prior et

The Prior of the Knights Hospitallers makes the following claim for
himself and the Brethren : — That their woods may not be taken for
Royal works ; that they may freely and in sufficient quantities take out
of their own woods, whenever they please, wood for the use of their
own house, without hindrance, and not incur forfeiture for waste, or be
amerced on account of so doing ; that all lands and assarts belonging
to them and their men are quit of waste, of regard, of view of the
foresters and of all other customs ; that the Brethren can assart and
cultivate without the leave of the King, his heirs or bailiffs, all the
woods that they hold within the bounds of the forest ; that the
Brethren and their own men are for ever quit of la wing of dogs ; and
if any of their men are amerced to the King or his bailiffs for any

* Pat. Rolls, 6 Ed. III., pt. I, m. 5 [Calendar, p. 274], April 15. Inspeximus
of a charter under the old seal dated 15 August, 1 Edw. III., being an inspeximus of
a charter dated 12 July, 37 Henr. III., confirming the liberties of the Templars, and
a confirmation of the same to the Hospitallers. This is not the confirmation in the
text, unless we are to assume some inaccuracy in the latter, but it may have been
contemporaneous.

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Fratres qui nunc sunt et similiter omnes Priores et Fratres [308b]
predecessores sui etc. semper a tempore confeccionis carte predicti
Regis Henrici etc. libertatibus predictis plene et integre sine interrup-
cione usi sunt et gavisi, et hoc parati sunt verificare per omnes ministros
foreste etc, et petunt quod libertates predicte eis in hac parte allocen-
tur. Et quia videtur Justiciariis quod expediens est et necesse ad
inquirendum per ministros predictos qualiter predicti Prior et Fratres
libertatibus predictis usi sunt, ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem.
Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati et onerati
dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predicti Prior et Fratres et
successores sui Hospitalis predicti, quoad hoc quod clamant quod bosci
eorum ad opera Regis nullo modo capiantur, et quoad hoc quod ipsi
libere et sumcienter sine qualibet occasione capere possint de omnibus
boscis suis ad usus domus sue quandocumque voluerint, nee propter
hoc in forisfactura de vasto vel in misericordia ponantur, semper a
tempore confeccionis carte predicte predicti Regis Henrici et sine
interrupcione in foresta ista plene et .integre usi sunt et gavisi prout
superius clamant. Et quoad hoc quod clamant quod omnes terre et
assarta sua et hominum suorum sunt quieti de vasto et regardo et de
visu forestariorum et de omnibus aliis consuetudinibus iidem ministri
dicunt quod iidem Prior et Fratres semper a tempore confeccionis carte
predicte de hiis omnibus in isto clamio contentis usi sunt in foresta
predicta, excepto tantum quod forestarii ejusdem foreste facient visum
de venacione domini, cum contigerit earn capi vel aliqualiter mortuam
inveniri in boscis et terris suis infra forestam. Et quoad hoc quod
iidem Prior et Fratres clamant quod ipsi de omnibus boscis suis quos
habent infra metas foreste possunt assartare et excolere sine licencia
Regis vel heredum suorum vel ballivorum suorum, ita quod inde in

cause or wrong whatsoever, the fines and amercements belong to the
Brethren. They are ready to prove that King Henry III. by deed
granted and confirmed to the Brethren of St. John of Jerusalem the
liberties thus claimed, which grant Edward III. inspected and con-
firmed, and they pray that their claims may be allowed. An inquiry as
to the user of the liberties is directed, and it is found that the Prior
and Brethren have from the date of the grant of King Henry III.
enjoyed without interruption the two liberties first claimed. As to
the next liberties, the Jury say that the Prior and Brethren have en-
joyed them also, except only that the foresters make view of the Earl's
game, when it happens that the same are taken or found dead in their
woods or lands within the forest. They have also enjoyed the liberties
claimed of assarting and cultivating land, and of being quit of the law-
ing of their dogs ; but as to the claim to have the amercements and

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nullo ab ipso Rege vel heredibus suis aut ballivis eorum imperpetuum
occasionentur, et ipsi et homines sui quieti sint de expeditacione canum
suorum imperpetuum, dicunt similiter iidem ministri quod ipsi Prior et
Fratres libertatibus predictis semper a tempore confeccionis carte
predicte sine interrupcione usi sunt et gavisi. Et quoad hoc quod
clamant quod si aliquis hominum suorum sit amerciatus erga dominum
Regem vel ballivos suos pro quacuraque causa vel delicto, misericordie
et amerciamenta sunt ipsorum Prioris et Fratrum, dicunt eciam iidem
ministri quod cum contigerit quod wodewardus ipsorum Prioris et
Fratrum non venerit ad attachiamenta foreste, prout alii wodewardi
diversorum dominorum in foresta predicta veniunt, ipse wodewardus
semper consuetus est amerciari ibidem et amerciamentum inde ad
opus domini Comitis levari, sicut et de aliis wodewardis qui non
venerunt et fuerunt amerciati. Ideo quoad hoc et similiter quod
forestarii facient visum de venacione domini dictum est eisdem Priori
et Fratribus quod expectent inde judicium suum die Lune proximo
post festum Sancti Gregorii Pape etc. Et similiter quod iidem Prior
et Fratres quoad omnia alia in clamio suo contenta eant inde sine die,
salvo semper jure etc. Ad quern diem venit predictus Prior ; et quia
compertum est quod forestarii facient visum de feris captis vel mortuis
infra boscos suos, et quod wodewardus eorum amercietur si non venerit
ad attachiamenta, ideo [309] iidem Prior et Fratres quoad hoc nichil
capiant, set sint in misericordia pro falso clamio suo.

Prior Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia et Fratres
Hospitalis predicti clamant de terris et tenementis que fuerunt
Magistri et Fratrum ordinis Milicie Templi in Anglia tempore
cessacionis et adnullacionis ejusdem quod bosci eorum ad aliqua opera

fines of their men, the Jury say that whenever it happened that the
woodward of the Prior and Brethren did not appear at the Court of
Attachments, as other woodwards of other lords of manors within the
forest did, such woodward was always fined, and the fines levied for
the use of the Earl, as were the other fines on the other woodwards
who did not appear. Judgment is therefore reserved until the 13
March, 1335, upon the questions of the fines so claimed and the view
of the foresters, and the rest of the claims are allowed. Judgment is
afterwards delivered to the effect that inasmuch as it has been found
that the foresters make view of deer taken or found dead within the
Prior's woods, and that his woodwards are fined if they do not appear
at the Court of Attachments, the claims as to these matters are
disallowed.

The same Prior and Brethren also claim that the woods appurtenant
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Regis nullo modo capiantur, et quod ipsi libere et sufficienter sine
qualibet occasione capere possint de omnibus boscis suis ad usus
domus sue quandocumque voluerint, nee propter hoc in forisfactura de
vasto vel in misericordia ponautur ; et quod omnes terre et assarta sua
et hominum suorum sint quieta de vasto et regardo et visu forestariorum
et de omnibus aliis consuetudinibus ; et quod ipsi de omnibus boscis
suis quos habent infra metas foreste possunt assartare et excolere sine
licencia Regis vel heredum suorum vel ballivorum suorum, ita quod
inde in nullo ab ipso Rege vel heredibus suis aut billivis eorum imper-
petuum occasionentur ; et quod ipse et homines sui proprii quieti sint
de expeditacione canum suorum imperpetuum ; et quod si aliquis
hominum suorum sit amerciatus erga dominum Regem vel ballivos
suos pro quacumque causa vel delicto misericordie et amerciamenta
sint ipsorum Prions et Fratrum : et dicunt quod dominus Henricus
quondam Rex Anglie proavus domini Regis nunc per cartam suam
concessit et confirmavit Deo et beate Marie et Fratribus ordinis Milicie
Templi Salomonis libertates predictas in clamio suo contentas ; virtute
cujus concessions iidem Magistri et Fratres ante adnullacionem ordinis
predicti usi fuerunt libertatibus et quietanciis predictis et gavisi, et
dicunt quod post cessacionem et adnullacionem ordinis predicti dominus
E. quondam Rex Anglie, pater domini Regis nunc, de assensu
Prelatorum, Comitum et Baronum, Procerum et aliorum de regno suo
ad Parliamentum suum apud Westmonasterium a die Puriricacionis
beate Marie in ties septimanas anno regni sui septimo decimo convo-

suppression of the order are not to be taken for Royal works ; that
they may freely and in sufficient quantities take out of such woods,
whenever they please, wood for the use of their house without
hindrance and not incur forfeiture for waste or be amerced for so
doing ; that all lands and assarts belonging to them and their men
are quit of waste, of regard, of view of the foresters, and of all other
customs ; that the Brethren can assart and cultivate without the leave
of the King, his heirs or bailiffs, all the woods that they hold within
the bounds of the forest ; that the Brethren and their own men are for
ever quit of lawing of dogs ; and if any of their men are amerced to
the King or his bailiffs for any cause or wrong whatsoever, the fines
and amercements belong to the Brethren. They are ready to prove
that King Henry III. by deed granted to the Brethren of the Temple
the liberties thus claimed which were enjoyed by virtue of the grant
up to the time of the suppression of the order. Afcer the suppression
Edward II., with the assent of the Prelates, Earls, Barons, Nobles,
and others assembled in Parliament at Westminster, on 23 February,
1324, granted by deed to the Prior and Brethren of the Hospital all

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catorum, concessit et connrmavit tunc Priori Hospitalis, predecessor!
Prioris qui nunc est, et Fratribus predictis omnes possessiones, jura,
advocaciones ecclesiarum, libertates, quietancias et liberas consuetudines
quascumque iidem Fratres ordinis predicti ante cessacionem et adnul-
lacionem ordinis predicti habuerunt, recitando libertates et quietancias
predictas, [? per cartam suam] eisdem Priori et Fratribus confectam
quam hie profert et que hoc testalur. Et dicunt quod virtute carte
predicte ipse et similiter predicti Priores et predecessores sui semper a
tempore confeccionis carte predicte Regis E. patris etc. libertatibus
predictis plene et integre sine interrupcione usi fuerunt et gavisi, et
hoc parati sunt verificare per omnes ministros etc. Et Henricus de
Duffield qui pro domino Comite sequitur in hac parte dicit quod
predicti Prior et Fratres hujusmodi libertates et quietancias racione
preallegacionis habere non debent, quia dicit quod prefatus dominus
H. quondam Rex Anglie proavus domini Regis nunc in honore, castro
et foresta de Pikeryng,* et postea per cartam suam dedit, concessit et
confirmavit Edmundo filio suo, nuper Comiti Lancastrie, patri Comitis
nunc cujus heres ipse est, predicta honorem, castrum et forestam cum
omnibus juribus et pertinenciis quibuscumque, tenenda eidem
Edmundo et [309b] heredibus suis de corpore suo procreatis imper-
petuum. Virtute cujus doni idem Edmundus seisitus fuit de eisdem et
inde obiit seisitus ; post cujus mortem honor, castrum et foresta
predicta descenderunt Thome, filio Edmundi predicti, ut filio et heredi
ipsius Edmundi. Et postea idem Thomas manerium de Foukebrigg
quod est infra forestam istam, et quod fuit ipsorum Magistri et
Fratrum, et ad quod predicti Prior et Fratres clamant hujusmodi

the possessions, rights, advowsons, liberties, quittances, and free
customs whatsoever that the Templars had before their suppression.
The deed is produced, and its contents vouched. They are ready to
prove that by virtue thereof all Priors from the date thereof have
enjoyed the liberties claimed without interruption. Henry de Duffield
[? Driffield], who sues for the Earl in this behalf, demurs to the claim
on the ground that Henry III. granted the honour, castle, and forest of
Pickering to his son Edmund, late Earl of Lancaster, and the heirs
of his body for ever. Earl Edmund was by this gift seised and died
seised ; after his death, the honour, castle, and forest descended to
Earl Thomas as his son and heir. Afterwards Earl Thomas granted
the manor of Foulbridge within the forest, which formerly belonged to
the Templars, and in respect of which the Hospitallers claim the
liberties and quittances, to one John de Dalton for life, the reversion
to the Earl and his heirs, of which reversion the Earl died seised, and
* The sense requires a verb, which has evidently been omitted.
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libertates et quietancias spectantes dedit cuidam Jobanni de Dalton
tenendum ad terminum vite ipsius Johannis per cartam suam, reversione
ejusdem manerii eidem Thome et heredibus suis spectante, qui quidem
Thomas sic de reversione predicta obiit seisitus. Et quia obiit sine
herede de corpore suo procreato, predicta honor, castrum et foresta
simul cum reversione predicta descendebant ipsi Henrico, ut fratri et
heredi predicti Thome per formam doni predicti. Et dicit quod post
tempus adnullacionis et cessacionis ordinis predicti terre, tenementa et
possessiones quecumque que fuerunt Magistri et Fratrum semper
fuerunt in manibus ipsorum Thome et Henrici tanquam escaeta sua,
quo* tempore libertates et quietancie predicte omnino extincte
fuerunt. Unde petit judicium si iidem Prior et Fratres hujusmodi
libertates et quietancias pertinentes ad terras et tenementa que de jure
communi tanquam dominica nostra et hereditarie ipsi descendebant
per aliquod factum Regis gaudere valeant in hac parte.

Et predicti Prior et Fratres dicunt quod ipsi precludi non debent,
quia dicunt quod ex quo ipsi de terris, tenementis et possessionibus ad
que hujusmodi libertates et quietancie debent pertinere virtute carte
predicte, ut superius asserunt, sunt seisiti. Et dominus Rex per cartam
suam concessit eis in pleno Parliamento suo de assensu Prelatorum,
Comitum et Baronum et aliorum Procerum quod ipsi hujusmodi liber-
tates et quietancias quibus Magistri et Fratres ante adnullacionem et
cessacionem ordinis predicti seisiti fuerunt et gavisi, habeant et teneant
sibi et successoribus suis imperpetuum. De quibus idem Magister et
Fratres ante adnullacionem et cessacionem ordinis predicti seisiti
fuerunt, et ipsi similiter a tempore confeccionis carte predicte ipsis ut
predicitur facte seisitus est [sic], prout parati sunt verificare per
ministros foreste predicte, vel aliter prout Curia etc., unde petunt
judicium etc. Et super hoc datus est dies tam prefatis Priori et

as he died without leaving any heir of his body, the honour, castle,
and forest, together with the reversion, descended to Earl Henry his
brother and heir of entail. After the suppression of the Templars,
their lands, tenements, and possessions remained always as escheats in
the hands of the Earls Thomas and Henry, at which time the liberties
and quittances were entirely extinguished. Wherefore he prays judg-
ment whether by any deed of the King the Hospitallers can enjoy the
liberties and quittances which by common law and of right of inheri-
tance descended to the Earl as their own demesnes. The Prior and
Brethren reply that this is no bar, because from the date of the King's
deed they were seised of the lands to which the liberties and acquit-
tances ought to be appurtenant ; and the King by the deed expressly
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Fratribus per prefatum Simonem Faukener attornatum quam prefato
Henrico usque diem Lune proximum post festum Sancti Gregorii Pape
apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis etc., deaudiendo inde judicio
suo etc. Ad quern diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury venerunt tam predicti Prior et
Fratres per attornatum suum predictum quam predictus Henricus ; et
deinde datus est eis dies usque diem Lune proximum post mensem
Pasche apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis de audiendo inde
judicio suo. Ad quern diem apud Pickeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wilughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis venerunt tam predicti
Prior et Fratres per attornatum suum predictum quam predictus
Henricus ; et deinde datus est eis dies usque diem Martis proximum
post tres septimanas Sancti Michaelis apud Pikeryng coram prefatis
Justiciariis etc, de audiendo [310] inde judicio suo. Ad quem diem
apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de
Shardelowe venerunt tam predicti Prior et Fratres per attornatum suum
quam predictus Henricus ; et deinde datus est eis dies apud Pikeryng
coram prefatis Justiciariis usque diem Jovis proximum post octabas
Purificacionis beate Marie [there follows a repetition of what has
already been printed at p. 138, ante, in the case of the Abbot of
Rievaulx] [310b]. Ad quem diem Lune proximum post festum Sancti
Andree Apostoli apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby
et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt tam predicti Prior et
Fratres per attornatum suum predictum quam predictus Henricus, per
breve domini Regis sub testimonio predicti Ricardi de Wylughby prout
etc. resummoniti, et deinde datus est eis inde dies usque diem Lune in
secunda septimana Quadragesime de audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad
quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt tam predicti Prior et
Fratres per attornatum suum predictum quam predictus Henricus, et
deinde datus est eis inde dies usque diem Lune proximum post festum
Sancti Mathei Apostoli de audiendo inde judicio suo etc. Ad quem
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne
de Hambury etc. venerunt tam predicti Prior et Fratres per attornatum
suum predictum quam predictus Henricus, et deinde datus est

granted to them all the liberties and quittances of which the Templars
were seised before their suppression, and these were liberties of which
the Templars were so seised before their suppression, and since the
grant they have been likewise seised. Judgment was reserved on each
of the several sittings of the Court already mentioned, on the last of
which, namely, Tuesday, 15 Sept., 1338, as the Court was not yet
prepared to give judgment, the matter was adjourned until 3 Nov.

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eis inde dies usque diem Lune proximum post festum Dominice in
Ramis Palmarum apud Pikeryng de audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad
quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury venerunt tam predicti Prior et Fratres per attor-
natum suum predictum quam predictus Henricus et deinde datus est
eis inde dies usque diem Martis proximum post festum Exaltacionis
Sancte Crucis de audiendo inde judicio etc.

Postea apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury, etc., venerunt tam predicti Prior et Fratres per
attornatum suum predictum quam predictus Henricus. Et quia pre-
dicti Justiciarii nondum avisantur ad judicium inde reddendum datus
est eis dies coram Domino Rege in crastino Animarum ubicumque, etc.,
de audiendo breve de [311] venire faciendo recordum tunc ibidem ad
diem predictum [sic]. Postea dominus Rex mandavit prefato Ricardo
de Wylughby breve suum clausum in hec verba; Edwardus Dei gracia
Rex Anglie dominus Hibernie et dux Aquitannie dilecto et fideli suo
Ricardo de Wylughby salutem. Cum vos et socii vestri; Justiciarii
nostri, ad placita foreste in foresta Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de
Pikeryng in comitatu Eboracensi tenenda assignati omnia clamia de
diversis libertatibus per dilectos nobis in Christo Priorem et Fratres
Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia racione terrarum et
tenementorum dominicorum libertatum [?] que fuerunt Magistri et
Fratrum ordinis Milicie Templi in Anglia sibi assignatorum coram
vobis et sociis vestris predictis in eadem foresta habenda facta propter
quasdam difficultates in eisdem clamiis intervenientes coram nobis
adjornaveritis ut accepimus, vobis mandamus quod si ita est, tunc
omnia clamia predicta, necnon recordum et processus inde coram
vobis habita, coram nobis ubicumque fuerimus in Anglia sub sigillo
vestro sine dilacione mittatis juxta adjornamentum predictum, hoc
breve nobis remittentes. Teste Edwardo Duce Cornubie et Comite
Cestrie filio nostro carissimo custode Anglie apud Kenyngton xviij die

following in the Court of King's Bench, and the Prior and Brethren
were directed to sue out a writ of venire facias in order to be able to
produce the record of the grant. Afterwards a close writ to Richard
de Willoughby, dated at Kennington, 18 Oct., 1338, was sent in the
King's name by his son Edward Duke of Cornwall* and Earl of
Chester, Keeper of England, ordering Richard de Willoughby to
despatch into the Court of King's Bench the claims of the Prior and
Brethren relating to the liberties claimed in respect of the lands which

* At this time the Black Prince, as he was afterwards called, was a lad of eight
years old only. Edward III. had shortly before sailed for Antwerp on his French
campaign.

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Octobris anno regni nostri duodecimo. Virtute cujus brevis recordum
et processus predicta mittuntur coram Rege ad diem predictum una
cum brevi predicto.

Thomas Wake* de Lydel clamat habere liberam chaceam suam ad
vulpem et leporem, catum et tessonem infra metas suas baronief sue
de Midelton infra forestam predictam per divisas, videlicet a loco qui
dicitur Alda de Costa usque le Standand Stane super le Spitelmyre
de Pikeryng, et sic usque le Meredike, et deinde usque le Centoft-
croft, et deinde usque Aldwlpotgate,J et deinde usque JarestanJ in
Ellerland, et deinde usque le Boret Thorn super Flatemaryng, deinde
usque Lofthous, et deinde usque le Rountree, et deinde super le Stan-
danstan in Wheldale mosse, et deinde usque le Netherblawath, et
deinde usque Stoverhous [? Shonerhous], et deinde usque Willm Hill,
et deinde usque Westschonerhill, et deinde usque Raufcrosse, et sic
ad aquam de Syvene usque Bruyndesdyke,§ et sic per fossatum fossi
parci || de Syvelyngton et per crestum de Risebergh, et sic juxta
Thornton Park usque le Resedik, et sic usque aquam de Costa et sic
ascendendo per aquam de Costa usque le Alda : et habere boscum
qui dicitur le Fryth extra regardum, et dare et vendere pro voluntale
sua et tenere in separalitate. Et habere boscum qui dicitur Holtwait-
bank extra regardum. Et petere et habere liberacionem in communibus

formerly belonged to the Templars, and now belong to them, as well
as the records of the proceedings. The writ was duly obeyed.

Thomas Wake of Liddell claims to have a free chase for fox, hare,
wildcat, and badger within the boundaries of his barony of Middleton,
namely, from the place called Alda on the Costa to the standing stone
above the Spital Myre^I of Pickering, so to the Meredyke, thence to
Saintoft croft, thence to old wolf pit gate, thence to the Graystone in
Ellerland, thence to the Boret Thorn above Flatmaryng, thence to
Lofthouse, thence to the rowan tree, thence above the standing stone
in Wheeldale Moss, thence to Nether Blawath, thence to Shunner
Howes, thence to William Howe, thence to West Shunner Howe,
thence to Ralph's Cross, so to the Seven by Bruindesdyke, so by the
ditch of Sinnington Park and the crest of Riseborough Hill, near
Thornton Park to the Risedike, and so to the Costa and up the Costa
to Alda. He also claims to hold the wood called the Frith outside the

* There is a fragment dated 161 1 of a copy of this claim. — Chapter House
Rolls, Box i, Ebor C.

t It is worthy of note that Middleton is here described as a Barony.

£ Old Wolf Pit Gate and Graye stone in Chapter House Roll.

§ Brayrdesdyke in Ch. H. R. || Fostepar in Ch. H. R.

IT This obviously obtained its name from St. Nicholas' Hospital. (See Vol. II.,
N.S., p. 214.)

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boscis suis semel per annum, videlicet ad proximum attachiamentum*
post festum Sancti Michaelis pro se et omnibus tenentibus infra
baroniam predictam. Et habere unum forestarium in forinsecof bosco
baronie de Midelton, et unum wodewardum apud Rysebergh. Et habere
escapium scilicet emendas de forinsecis averiis que non agistantur per
dominum (et) per metas predictas. Et habere arream de esperveriis
et merlonibus in boscis suis, et apes et mel et petras molares infra
baroniam predictam, et eciam fodere turbas, eradicare feugeram et
brueram pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis infra metas baronie pre-
dicte. Et dicit quod [311b] ipse et omnes antecessores sui et domini
baronie predicte per divisas predictas similiter habuerunt boscum qui
dicitur le Frith extra regardum, et boscum de eodem dederunt et ven-
diderunt pro voluntate sua, et tenuerunt ilium in separalitate. Et
similiter habuerunt predictum boscum qui dicitur Holtwait Bank extra
regardum. Et habuerunt similiter liberacionem suam in communibus
boscis suis annuatim ad proximum attachiamentum post festum
Sancti Michaelis pro se et tenentibus suis predictis. Et similiter
habuerunt forestarium in boscis predictis forincesis [sic\. Et similiter
habuerunt wodewardum apud Risebergh. Et habuerunt in boscis suis
infra baroniam predictam aeream de esperveriis et merlonibus, apes,
mel et petras molares. Et similiter foderunt turbas et eradi-
carunt feugeram et brueram pro se et tenentibus suis infra metas
baronie predicte absque interrupcione aliquali, et hoc paratus est veri-
ficare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per
eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati
dicunt super sacramentum suum, quoad habere liberam chaceam ad

regard, and to give and sell thereout at will and hold it in severalty ;
to hold the wood called Holtwaitbank, as outside the regard ; and to
ask for and have livery for himself and all his tenants resident within
his barony in all his commonable woods once a year, namely, at the
next attachment Court after Michaelmas ; to have a forester to [look
after the cattle] of strangers in his woods of the barony, and a wood-
ward at Riseborough ; and to have escapes, that is to say, the amerce-
ments within the limits aforesaid of all strangers' cattle not agisted by
the Earl, and to have aeries of sparrowhawks and merlins in his woods,
and bees, honey and millstones within his barony, and to cut turves
and uproot bracken and heather for himself and his tenants resident
within the barony. He is ready to prove that he and his ancestors,
lords of the barony, have enjoyed these rights [from time immemorial]
without interruption. An inquiry is directed, and it is found that

* See note in Introduction as to Swanimote.
t Ch. H. R. adds aver' after forinsecis.

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lepores, vulpes, catos et tessones, quod Eustachius de Scutebile
[? Stuteville], quondam tenens baronie predicte, cui dominus Rex
Henricus quondam Rex Anglie, progenitor domini Regis nunc, concessit
chaceare ibidem ad voluntatem ipsius Regis Henrici tantummodo,
nullam liberam chaceam ibidem habuit, nee idem Thomas adhuc
ibidem habet. Et quoad habere liberacionem in boscis suis semel per
annum, dicunt quod omnes antecessores predicti Thome a tempore quo
non extat memoria habuerunt pro se et tenentibus suis predictis ad quod-
libet attachiamentum quocienscumque necesse fuerit, liberacionem, et
hoc ad sufficienciam bosci, et non semel per annum sicut clamat. Et
quoad habere emendas de forincesis averiis que non agistantur per
dominum, dicunt quod si forestarii Comitis venerunt infra metas pre-
dictas et primo invenerint hujusmodiaveria, escapium inde presentatum
est et fuit a tempore quo non extat memoria ad attachiamentum
hujusmodi foreste, et ibidem dominus foreste habet emendas, et si
forestarius predicti Thome vel antecessorum suorum primo venerit et
hujusmodi averia ibidem ceperit, tunc predictus Thomas et antecessores
sui inde habuerunt emendas. Et quoad habendum boscum qui dicitur
le Frith extra regardum, et dare inde et vendere pro voluntate sua,
et tenere ilium in separalitate ; et similiter habere boscum extra le
Holtwaitbank extra regardum, et habere forestarium in forincesis boscis
baronie predicte, et wodewardum apud Rys^bergh, et aream de
esperveriis et merlonibus, apes et mel in boscis suis et petras molares,
et fodere turbas et eradicare feugeram et brueram pro se, hominibus et
tenentibus suis infra metas baronie predicte, dicunt quod idem Thomas
et omnes antecessores sui tenentes baroniam predictam a tempore quo
non extat memoria predictis libertatibus usi sunt et gavisi. Ideo quoad
habere liberam chaceam per divisas predictas ad vulpes, lepores, catos
et tessones, et liberacionem de communibus boscis suis semel per

King Henry granted to Eustace de Stuteville, a former holder of the
barony, the right to hunt at the King's pleasure only, and that neither
he nor Lord Wake ever had a free chase for fox, hare, wildcat, or
badger. Further, the Jury say that all the ancestors of Lord Wake
from time immemorial had for themselves and their tenants livery of
wood if there was sufficient [?] at every attachment Court whenever
it was required, and not once in the year, as he claims, Further,
they say that if the Earl's foresters came within the boundaries of the
barony, and were the first to find cattle of strangers there which were
not agisted by the Earl, the escape has from time immemorial been
presented at the next attachment Court and the Earl has the fines, but
if the forester of Lord Wake or his ancestors came first and seized the
cattle Lord 'Wake or his ancestor had the fines. They find that Lord

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annum, et escapium de forincesis averiis consideration est quod idem
Thomas nichil capiat in hac parte, set sit in misericordia pro falso
clamio suo. [312] Et quoad residuum tocius clamii predicti similiter
consideration est quod idem Thomas illud habeat et gaudeat imper-
petuum, salvo semper jure, etc.

Thomas Wake de Lydel clamat venire per ministros suos ad quod-
libet attachiamentum, et petere et habere ibidem liberacionem pro se
et tenentibus suis de baronia sua de Midelton in communibus boscis
infra baroniam predictam secundum assisam foreste, preter boscum del
Frith et boscum de Holtwaitbank qui sibi adjudicati sunt tenendi in
separali extra regardum. Et habere emendas in Curia sua de omnibus
forincesis boscis inventis et attachiatis per ministros suos antequam
ministri domini foreste hujusmodi boscos [? bestias] invenerint et per
eosdem attachiati fuerint in omnibus boscis de predicta baronia. Et
dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui tenentes baroniam predictam
a tempore quo non extat memoria seisiti fuerunt de predictis libertatibus
tanquam pertinentibus baronie predicte absque interrupcione aliqua, et
hoc paratus est verificare per ministros ejusdem foreste. Qui scilicet
forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum, quod idem Thomas et omnes antecessores sui a tempore
quo non extat memoria habuerunt liberacionem pro se et tenentibus
suis de baronia predicta ad quodlibet attachiamentum in omnibus boscis
infra baroniam predictam preter boscos predictos superius exceptos
secundum assisam foreste. Et quod idem Thomas et omnes ante-
cessores sui similiter habuerunt emendas in Curia sua de omnibus

forinsecis boscis in omnibus boscis de predicta baronia inventis per

•. * _^___

Wake and all his ancestors have enjoyed all the other liberties claimed
from time immemorial. The claims are therefore allowed, except as
to the free chase, livery of wood once a year, and escapes of cattle of
non-residents.

Thomas Wake of Liddell claims to appear by his officers at every
attachment Court, and to ask for and receive livery, according to the
assize of the forest, for himself and his tenants within the barony of
Middleton, in the commonable woods within the barony, not including
the Frith and Holtwaitbank, which it has been decided are held in
severalty outside the regard ; he also claims the fines in his Court
arising from the cattle of non-residents found and attached by his
officers before the Earl's officers find and attach them in all the woods
within the barony. He is ready to prove that he and his ancestors
holding the barony have enjoyed these rights, as appurtenant thereto,
from time immemorial without interruption. The Jury find that this is
the case, and the claims are allowed,

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ministros suos attachiatis, antequam ministri foreste hujusmodi bestias
[sic] invenerint prout idem Thomas superius clamat. Ideo considera-
tum est quod idem Thomas eat inde sine die, salvo semper jure, etc.

Gilbertus de Aton clamat vendere et dare tarn infra forestam quam
extra boscum suum tarn viridem quam siccum de boscis suis de
Ayclifside et Troucedale versus boriam que sunt extra regardum
foreste, et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non
extat memoria vendiderunt et dederunt boscum suum predictum ut
predictum est et hoc petit quod inquiratur per omnes ministros istius
foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et
regardatores ad hoc jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod pre-
dictus Gilbertus et omnes antecessores sui a tempore quo non extat
memoria vendiderunt et dederunt boscum predictum prout superius
clamat tanquam pertinentem ad manerium suum de Brumpton sine
interrupcione aliquali. Ideo consideratum est quod idem Gilbertus eat
inde sine die, salvo semper jure etc.

Gilbertus de Aton clamat vendere boscum suum tam de viridi quam
siccum in boscis suis de Troucedale versus boriam, qui sunt extra
regardum, videlicet ilium boscum qui est ex parte boriali de Troucedale
a loco qui [312b] dicitur Braithwait versus occidentem in longum per
rivulum de Troucedale sicut rivulus currit versus orientem, usque ad
quendam sikettum qui cadit in eundem rivulum descendendo a quodam
fonte qui dicitur Apeltrekeld, et inde per sikettum predictum ascen-
dendo ad fontem predictum, et a predicto fonte ascendendo directe
usque ad Blaclousenese, et deinde transcendendo alium usque ad

Gilbert de Ayton claims the right to sell and give away, both within
and without the forest, green as well as dry wood out of his woods of
Ayclifside and Troutsdale towards the north, which are quit of regard,
as he and his ancestors have done from time immemorial. An inquiry
is directed, and it is found that Gilbert and his ancestors from time
immemorial have without interruption sold and given away the wood
in question as appurtenant to the manor of Brompton. The claim is
allowed.

Gilbert de Ayton* claims the right to sell green and dry wood out
of his woods to the north of Troutsdale which are outside the regard,
namely, from Braithvvaite westward along Troutsdale beck as the beck
flows to the east, to a rillf which flows into the beck from a spring
called Appletree Keld, thence ascending the rill up to the spring,
thence still upwards to Blackleys ness, thence crossing over up to a

* See p. 98, ante.

t Syke is still the usual word in Yorkshire {See Atkinson's " Cleveland Glossary,"
s.v.)

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quendam lapidem ex opposito le Birk inter le Birk et Blaclousenese, et
deinde per quandam semitam rectam usque orientalem finem de
Blaclousdyk, et deinde per dictum fossatum sicut tendit directe ab
oriente in longum versus occidentem usque ad quandam semitam
jacentem ex parte australi de Brounthous, et sic per eandam semitam
descendendo sicut ducit ad cilium de Goderiggil, et deinde per
sikettum descendendo per medium de Goderikgil usque ad Braithwait
ubi idem torrens cadit in Troucedalebek. Et dicit quod ipse et
omnes antecessores sui tenentes manerii de Brumpton a tempore quo
non extat memoria vendiderunt et dederunt boscum suum tam viridem
quam siccum in boscis suis de Troucedale versus boriam per divisas
predictas, et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros istius foreste. Ideo
inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem, set ponitur in respectum usque
diem Lune proximum post festum Sancti Mathei apostoli hie, eo quod
ministri predicti pecierunt a Justiciariis quod visum habeant de divisis
predictis priusquam veredictum predictum psallerint. Et idem dies
datus est prefato Gilberto. Ad quem diem coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venit predictus
Gilbertus per Ricardum de Naulton attornatum suum, et similiter
ministri venerunt. Qui ad hoc jurati et onerati dicunt super sacra-
mentuum suum quod idem Gilbertus et omnes antecessores sui tenentes
manerium predictum de Brumpton a tempore quo non extat memoria
vendiderunt et dederunt boscum tam viridem quam siccum in boscis
suis de Troucedale versus boriam per divisas predictas prout idem
Gilbertus superius clamat. Ideo consideratum est quod idem Gilbertus
eat inde sine die, salvo semper jure etc.

Decanus et Capitulum ecclesie beati Petri Eboracensis clamant

stone opposite the Birch Tree between the Birch Tree and Blackleys
ness, thence by a straight path to the east end of Blackleys dyke,
thence along the dyke as it goes from east to west up to a path lying
on the south of Brown Howes, thence descending by that path as it
leads to the brow of Goderick Gill, thence descending by the rill
through the middle of Goderick Gill up to Braithwaite, where it falls
into Troutsdale beck. He is ready to prove that he and all his
ancestors while holding the manor of Brompton frqin time immemo-
rial have sold and given away both green and dry "food within these
boundaries. An inquiry is directed, but is respited until Monday,
22 Sept., 1337, because the Jury desire to have a view before giving
their verdict, on which day Gilbert appears before Richard de
Willoughby and John de Hambury, by Richard de Naulton, his
attorney, and the Jury having given their verdict in his favour, his
claim is allowed.

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habere communam pasturam pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de
Farmanby, Kynthorp et Ellerburn in boscis, mods et pasturis earundum
villarum; et pro se et hominibus suis de Wylton et pro se, hominibus
et tenentibus suis de Allerstan in boscis, moris et pasturis ejusdem ville
absque aliquo inde dando ; et pro se hominibus et tenentibus suis de
Farmanby, Kynthorp et Ellerburn esse quieti de pannagio tempore
pannagii in boscis et moris dictarum trium villarum pro se, hominibus
et tenentibus suis de Allerstan in boscis et moris ejusdem ville, pro
se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de Ebreston in boscis et moris
ejusdem ville; pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de Farmanby,
Kynthorp, Ellerburn, Wylton, Allerstan et Ebreston esse quieti de
expeditacione canum et putura omnium ministrorum foreste ; et pro se,
hominibus et tenentibus suis de Farmanby habere housebote et haibote
et subboscum per assisam foreste [313] ad curtilagium et fossatum
ejusdem ville claudendum, et colligere nuces ad estoveria sua in bosco
de Farmanby ; et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de Ellerburn in
bosco de Ellerburn, et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de
Allerstan in boscis de Allerstan, et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus
suis de Edbreston in boscis de Edbreston.

Et quoad habere communam pasture pro se, hominibus et tenentibus
suis de Farmanby, Kynthorp et Ellerburn in boscis, moris et pasturis

The Dean and Chapter of York claim to have common of pasture
for themselves, their men and tenants of Farmandby, Kingthorpe and
Ellerburn in the woods, moors and pastures of the same townships,
and for themselves and their men of Wilton, and for themselves, their
men and tenants of Allerston in the woods, moors and pastures of that
township without payment ; and for themselves, their men and tenants
of Farmandby, Kingthorpe, Ellerburn, Allerston and Ebberston to be
quit of pannage in the mast season in the woods and moors of those
townships ; for themselves, their men and tenants of Farmandby, King-
thorpe, Ellerburn, Wilton, Allerston and Ebberston to be quit of lawing
of dogs and puture of all the officers of the forest ; for themselves,
their men and tenants of Farmandby, to have housebote and hedgebote
and underwood in accordance with the assize of the forest to inclose
their curtilage and the town ditch,* and to collect nuts for estovers in
the wood of Farmandby, and a like right for themselves, their men and
tenants of Ellerburn, Allerston and Ebberston in the woods of those
townships. They claim to enjoy the rights after-mentioned by virtue
of a grant made by King Henry I. to Archbishop Gerard of York of
the churches of Pocklington, Driffield, Kilham, Pickering, Aldborough

* As a possible explanation I would suggest that this was the ditch round the
common field, on the bank of which a fence appears to have been made.

156 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

earundem villarum, et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de Wylton
in Wylton, et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de Allerstan in
Allerstan, et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de Edbreston in
Edbreston absque aliquo inde dando ; et pro se, hominibus et tenen-
tibus suis de Farmanby, Kynthorp et Ellerburn esse quieti de pannagio
tempore pannagii ; et pro se et hominibus suis de Allerstan, et pro se,
hominibus suis et tenentibus de Edbreston in bosciset moris earundem
villarum, et pro se. hominibus et tenentibus suis de Farmanby, Kyn-
thorp, Ellerburn, Wilton, Allerstan et Edbreston esse quieti de expedi-
tacione canum et putura omnium ministrorum foreste de Pikeryng (et)
dicunt quod dominus Henricus quondam Rex Anglie, progenitor domini
Regis nunc dedit et concessit Sancto Petro et G. Archiepiscopo Ebora-
censi ecclesias de Pokelyngton, Duffield, Kylum, Pikerying, Burgh et
Snayd cum omnibus suis capellis, consuetudinibus et sok et sak ad eas
pertinentibus. Et precepit quod ecclesie predicte essent quiete et libere
in omnibus rebus et consuetudinibus ut Sanctus Petrus perpetualiter
teneat ipsas ecclesias quietas, solutas et liberas ab omni servicio per
cartam suam quam hie profert et que hoc testatur. Virtute cujus doni
predictus G. Archiepiscopus quietus fuit de pannagio, expeditacione
canum et putura omnium ministrorum, et habuit communam pasturam
pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis predictis in moris, boscis et pasturis
tanquam dependentem terre in eisdem villis. Et dicunt quod facta
permutacione inter predictum Archiepiscopum et tunc Decanum et
Capitulum Eboracense de ecclesia de Pikeryng predicta pro aliis terris
et tenementis, iidem Decanus et Capitulum pro se, hominibus et tenen-
tibus predictis tunc temporis et omnes Decani ecclesie predicte et
Capitulum a tempore predicto, et ipsi similiter pro se, hominibus et
tenentibus suis predictis virtute carte predicte quieti fuerunt de pan-
nagio, expeditacione canum et putura ministrorum in villis predictis. Et
habuerunt communam pasture ut superius asserunt absque aliquo inde
dando tanquam dependentem terre sue in villis predictis. Et hoc
parati sunt verificare per ministros foreste.

Et quoad habendum pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis de

and Snaith with their chapels, customs and jurisdictions, in which he
directed that such churches were to be quit and free in all matters and
customs, so that the church of St. Peter might for ever hold the
churches quit, released and free of all service. The deed is produced.
By virtue of this grant Archbishop Gerard was quit of pannage, lawing
of dogs and puture of all the officers of the forest, and enjoyed the
common of pasture claimed above as appurtenant to his land in those
townships. Afterwards the Archbishop exchanged with the Dean and
Chapter the church of Pickering for other lands, and they are ready to

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Farmanby housebote, haibote et subboscum per assisam foreste ad
curtilagia et fossatum ejusdem ville claudenda, et colligere nuces ad
estoveria sua in boscis de Farmanby, et pro se, hominibus et tenentibus
suis de Kynthorp in boscis de Kynthorp, et pro se, hominibus et tenen-
tibus suis de Ellerburn in boscis de Ellerburn, et pro se, hominibus et
tenentibus suis de Allerstan in boscis de Allerstan, et pro se, hominibus
et tenentibus suis de Edbreston in boscis de Edbreston dicunt quod
ipsi et omnes Decani ecclesie predicte et Capitulum a tempore quo
non extat memoria habuerunt housebote, haibote [313b] et subboscum,
et colligerunt nuces ad estoveria sua pro se, hominibus et tenentibus
suis predictis in locis predictis absque interrupcione tanquam perti-
nencia terre sue quam habent in eisdem villis, et hoc parati sunt
verificare per ministros foreste. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per
eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores dicunt super
sacramentum suum quod quoad hoc quod iidem Uecanus et Capitulum
clamant habere communam pasture pro se, hominibus et tenentibus
suis in iocis et villis predictis, et esse quieti de pannagio, expeditacione
canum et putura ministrorum foreste, dicunt quod iidem Decanus et
Capitulum et omnes Decani ecclesie predicte et Capitulum, predeces-
sores sui, a tempore quo non extat memoria virtute carte predicte
fuerunt quieti pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis predictis in boscis
et moris predictis de pannagio tempore pannagii, expeditacione canum
et putura ministrorum foreste, et habuerunt communam pasture pro se,
hominibus et tenentibus suis predictis in locis predictis tanquam perti-
nentem terre sue predicte. Et quoad habendum housebote et haibote
et subboscum et colligere nuces ad estoveria sua pro se, hominibus et
tenentibus suis predictis in boscis predictis, dicunt similiter iidem
ministri quod predicti predecessores [? Decanus] et Capitulum et omnes
Decani ecclesie predicte et Capitulum predecessores sui a tempore quo
non extat memoria pro se, hominibus et tenentibus suis predictis habue-
runt housebote et haibote et subboscum ad curtilagia et fossata sua
claudenda, et colligerunt nuces ad estoveria sua, prout clamant, absque
interrupcione aliquali. Ideo iidem Decanus et Capitulum eant inde
sine die, salvo semper jure etc.

prove that the Dean and Chapter have ever enjoyed the same rights
from that time. They claim the rights of taking housebote, hedgebote
and underwood for enclosing their curtilages and the town ditch and
of collecting nuts for their estovers in the woods mentioned, as having
enjoyed them from time immemorial without interruption as appurte-
nant to their land in the several townships. An inquiry is directed,
and it is found that the Dean and Chapter have enjoyed the rights in
accordance with their claims. Judgment is given in their favour.

158 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

Johannes de Melsa miles clamat ardere cablicia et siccum boscum
in boscis suis de Levesham et inde facere carbones et eos dare et
vendere pro voluntate sua. Et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores
sui tenentes manerium de Levesham a tempore quo non extat memoria
arderunt cablicia et siccum boscum in boscis suis predictis, et inde
fecerunt carbones et eos dederunt et vendiderunt pro voluntate sua
tanquam pertinentes ad manerium predictum, et hoc paratus est veri-
ficare per ministros istius foreste etc. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per
eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati
dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predictus Johannes et omnes
antecessores sui et tenentes manerium predictum semper a tempore
quo non extat memoria usi fuerunt ardere cablicia et siccum boscum
de boscis predictis, et inde fecerunt carbones et eos dederunt et
vendiderunt pro voluntate sua prout idem Johannes superius clamat.
Et super hoc datus est dies prefato Johanni hie usque diem Martis
proximum post festum Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis de audiendo inde
judicio suo. Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo
de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury, Justiciariis etc. venit predictus
Johannes de Melsa per Johannem de Lutton attornatum suum et petit
judicium super veredicto ministrorum predictorum, quod predictus
Johannes de Melsa et omnes antecessores sui et tenentes manerium
predictum semper a tempore quo [314] non extat memoria usi fuerunt
ardere cablicia et siccum boscum de boscis suis predictis de Levesham,
et inde fecerunt carbones et eos dederunt et vendiderunt pro voluntate
sua, prout idem Johannes per clamium suum supponit. Consideratum
est quod idem Johannes de Melsa eat inde sine die, salvo semper
jure etc.

Prior Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia clamat
agistare omnimoda animalia in illis terris et tenementis suis de manerio
suo de Foukbrigg, que se extendent [? extendunt] ex parte occidentali

Sir John de Meaux* claims the right of burning browsewood and
dry wood in his woods at Levisham, making therefrom charcoal, and
giving and selling it at pleasure. He is ready to prove that he and all
his ancestors from time immemorial while holding the manor of
Levisham have enjoyed this right as appurtenant to the manor. An
inquiry is directed, and the Jury find in his favour. Judgment is
reserved until Tuesday, 15 Sept., 1338, when Sir John appears by his
attorney John de Lutton before Richard de Willoughby and John de
Hambury. Judgment is given allowing the claim.

The Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England
claims the right to agist all manner of animals in those lands of the
* See p. 2, ante.

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ejusdem manerii del Kerdyke usque Derwent et proficuum agistamenti
percipere ad voluntatem suam. Et per Simonem le Faukener, con-
fratrem ipsius Prions, generalem attornatum suum, dicit quod ipse et
omnes tenentes manerium predictum a tempore quo non extat
memoria agistarunt omnia animalia in terris et tenementis predictis
per divisas predictas, et proficuum agistamenti perceperunt ad volun-
tatem suam : et dicit quod Magister et Fratres ordinis Milicie Templi
Salomonis post tempus memorie seisiti fuerunt de agistamento
[? manerio] predicto in dominico suo ut de feodo, qui similiter seisiti
fuerunt de agistamento predicto per divisas predictas et proficuum
ejusdem agistamenti ceperunt tanquam pertinentem manerio pre-
dicto : et post cessacionem et adnullacionem ordinis predicti quando
manerium predictum ad manus Thome nuper Comitis Lancastrie,
fratris domini Comitis nunc, cujus heres ipse est, devenit, idem
Thomas similiter tunc seisitus fuit de agistamento predicto in forma
predicta tanquam pertinent! manerio predicto, et similiter quidam
Johannes de Dalton cui predictus Thomas predictum manerium
dimiserat tenendum, postea seisitus fuit de agistamento predicto in
forma predicta. Et postea cum dominus Edwardus nuper Rex Anglie?
pater domini Regis nunc, ad parliamentum suum apud Westmonas-
terium a die Purificacionis beate Marie in tres septimanas anno regni
sui decimo septimo de assensu Prelatorum, Comitum, Baronum,
Procerum et aliorum de regno suo ibidem convocatorum per cartam
suam concessisset et confirmasset tunc Priori Hospitalis, predecessori
suo, et Fratribus Hospitalis predicti omnes possessiones, jura, advoca-

manor of Foulbridge which stretch on the west side of the manor from
the Cardyke to the Derwent, and to take at pleasure the profits of the
agistment. He says by his general attorney, Brother Simon the
Falconer, that he and all persons holding the manor have from time
immemorial agisted all manner of animals in the lands described and
taken at pleasure the profits of the agistment ; moreover, after the time
of memory,* the Master and Brethren of the Knight Templars were
seised of the manor in their demesne as of fee, and likewise were
seised of the agistment, and took the profit as appurtenant to the
manor. After the suppression of the order when the manor came into
the hands of Earl Thomas, the Earl was likewise seised of the agist-
ment as appurtenant to it, and likewise one John de Dalton, to whom
the Earl demised the manor, was seised of the agistment. Afterwards
King Edward II. in Parliament at Westminster, on 23 Feby., 1324,
with the assent of the Prelates, Earls, Barons, nobles and others
granted by deed to the Prior and Brethren of the Hospital all the
* Then the first coronation of Henry III., i.e., 1216.

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ciones ecclesiarum, libertates, quietancias et liberas consuetudines
quascunque que fuerunt ipsorum Fratrum ordinis predicti ante cessa-
cionem et adnullacionem ejusdem ordinis, per quod manerium
predictum devenit ad manus predicti Prioris cum juribus et pertinen-
ciis suis quibuscumque, predictus Prior qui tunc fuit et similiter omnes
Priores loci predicti, successores sui, a tempore predicto et ipse
similiter seisiti fuerunt de agistamento predicto in forma predicta
tanquam pertinenti manerio predicto absque interrupcione aliquali, et
hoc paratus est verificare per ministros istius foreste etc. Ideo
inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et
regardatores ad hoc jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum quod
omnes tenentes manerium predictum a tempore quo non extat memoria,
et similiter predictus Magister Milicie Templi ante cessacionem et
adnullacionem ordinis predicti, et post adnullacionem et cessacionem
ejusdem ordinis predictus Thomas Comes, et postea de ipsius Comitis
dimissione predictus Johannes de Dalton [314b], et similiter a tempore
concessionis et confirmacionis predictarum omnes Priores, predeces-
sores sui, et eciam predictus Prior qui nunc est absque aliqua inter-
rupcione semper agistarunt omnimoda animalia in terris et tenementis
predictis per divisas predictas, et proficuum agistamenti perceperunt ad
voluntatem suam, prout in clamio ipsius Prioris superius continetur.
Ideo consideratum est quod idem Prior eat inde sine die, salvo semper
jure etc.

Thomas Wake de Lydel clamat habere emendas in Curia sua de
escapiis de forincecis boscis [? bestiis] non agistatis per dominum
foreste, captis per ministros ejusdem Thome infra metas baronie de
Midelton, si eos ceperint antequam forestarii domini foreste fecerint

possessions, rights, advowsons, liberties, quittances and free customs
whatsoever that the Templars had before their suppression. By virtue
of which grant he is ready to prove that the manor came to the hands
of the Prior and he was thenceforth seised of the agistment in question.
An inquiry is directed and the Jury find that all holders of the manor
from time immemorial, likewise the Master of the Temple before the
suppression of the Order, after the suppression Earl Thomas, his
tenant John de Dalton, and the Priors from the date of the grant to
them have without interruption agisted all manner of animals in the
lands described and at pleasure taken the profits of the agistment.
Judgment is given allowing the claim.

Thomas Wake* of Liddel claims the right of having the fines in his

* See ante, p. 152. His claim as to escapes taken in his woods was allowed. He
now makes a wider claim, extending it to all his lands, but he is only successful so
far as the moors are concerned.

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aliquam capcionem vel attachiamentum in eis, et dicit quod ipse et
omnes antecessores sui et tenentes baroniam a tempore quo non extat
memoria ceperunt emendas in Curia sua de hujusmodi escapiis infra
metas baronie predicte tanquam pertinentes manerio suo de Midelton,
et petit quod inquiratur per ministros ejusdem foreste. Ideo inquiratur
inde Veritas per eosdem etc. Qui scilicet forestarii, viridarii et regarda-
tores dicunt super sacramentum suum quod idem Thomas et omnes
antecessores sui et tenentes baroniam predictam a tempore quo non
extat memoria habuerunt emendas suas in Curia sua de hujusmodi
escapiis in moris et boscis tantummodo infra metas baronie predicte, et
non in terra arabili prout idem Thomas superius clamat. Ideo con-
sideratum est quod idem Thomas quoad habere emendas suas de
escapiis predictis in boscis et moris tantummodo infra metas baronie
predicte, illud habeat et gaudeat sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum,
salvo semper jure etc. Et quoad residuum clamii predicti similiter
consideratum est quod idem Thomas nichil capiat, set sit in miseri-
cordia pro falso clamio suo. Postea venit Nicholaus Repyngale,
attornatus predictus Thome ad libertates suas calumpniandas et
prosequendas, et petit quod possit admitti ad finem faciendum pro
misericordia domini sui in hac parte et admittitur per finem dimidie
marce per plegium Johannis de Farndale et Petri filii Gervasii.

Prior de Malton* clamat habere piscariam suam in Rie et Derewenta

court of escape of stranger's cattle, not agisted by the Earl, if taken by
his officers within his barony of Middleton before the Earl's foresters
have made any capture or attachment of them. He says that he and
all his ancestors from time immemorial while holding the barony have
taken the fines in their court from such escapes as appurtenant to the
manor of Middleton. An inquiry is directed and the Jury find that
the right is limited to escapes found in the moors and woods only of
the barony and not in the arable land. The claim is therefore allowed
as to the former only and Thomas Wake is amerced for making too
extensive a claim. Afterwards Nicholas Repyngale, his attorney to
prosecute his claims, compounds for 6s 8d for his lord's amercement.
Sureties, John de Farndale and Peter son of Gervais.

* This was copied into the Malton Coucher Claudius D. XI. at fol. 125. The
handwriting, which is of a date later than the body of the Coucher, is probably
contemporaneous with the Eyre. It gives the date of the claim " in crastino
Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis Anno Domini millesimo trecentesimo trecesimo octavo "
[15 Sept., 1338], and the name of the Prior is John ; whereas at fol. 126, where the
claim already printed at p. 102, ante, is copied, the date of the claim is 1336 and the
Prior's name William. In the margin of fol. 125 there is written in a late sixteenth-
century hand " comone of the Marresse More for xxx oxen and ij bulls, xxx kye and
ther calves of one yere old with the fysshing in Darwente to Allerstone Becke."

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a Costa usque Alestan* bek infra metas foreste, et habere communam
pasture ad triginta boves et duos taurosf cum secta earum unius anni
infra has divisas, videlicet inj Howe in longitudine usque Kypsyk, et
in latitudine a Costa usque ad rivulum qui currit juxta domos
monachorum ex parte occidentali qui dicuntur Kekemarreys et tendit
versus Pikeryng, et in quodam prato vocato Edyvemerssh annuatim
post fenum falcatum, adunatum et cariatum usque primum diem
Veneris mensis§ March, et habere communam turbarie infra divisas
predictas, excepto prato. Et dicit quod dominus Henricus quondam
Rex Anglie primus, || genitor domini Regis nunc, concessit Canonicis
de Malton quod ipsi habeant et teneant communam pasture pre-
dictam de ponte de Howe usque ad Kypsyk, et turbas et brueras suas
in pratis [? pro] coverturis suis^f annuatim ad domum suam [315] de
Malton cariandas ita bene et in pace, libere et juste sicut melius
tenuerunt et habuerunt die qua Eustachius filius Johannis fuit vivus
et mortuus, qui predictam communam pasture et turbarie eis dedit per
cartam ipsius Eustachii quam hie profert et que hoc testatur. Con-
cessit eciam eis idem dominus Rex piscariam predictam in Rie et
Derewent in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam cum omnibus aliis

The Prior of Malton claims a fishery in the Rye and Derwent from
the Costa to Allerston beck within the forest, and common of pasture
for thirty oxen, two bulls and thirty cows with their offspring up to one
year old within these limits, namely, from Howe Bridge to Kipsyke in
length, and in breadth from the Costa to the stream which flows past
the houses of the monks at Kekke Marish in the direction of Pickering,
and in a certain meadow called Edusmarsh** after the hay has been
cut, made into cocks and carried, up to the first Friday in March, and
to have common of turbary within these boundaries, except in the
meadow. He says that Henry II. granted to the Canons of Malton
that they might have common of pasture from Howe Bridge to Kipsyke
and turves and heather for thatching [?] to be carried every year to
their house at Malton as fully as they enjoyed them when Eustace son
of John died, who granted to them these rights by deed, which they
produce. The King also granted to them the fishery in the Rye and
Derwent in frankalmoign, with all the liberties and free customs that he

* Allerstan in Malton Coucher. t Et triginta vaccas added in Malton Coucher.

% A ponte de in Malton Coucher.

§ The date when the meadows were shut up is interesting.

|| This must have been secundum.

IT Et prata et coverturas suas in Malton Coucher, fol. 28d, where the grant is
set out.

** This, which afterwards became and still is known as Castle Ings, can be identi-
fied. It occupied the angle formed by the junction of the Rye and Derwent.

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libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus sicut regia potestas liberior alicui
ecclesie conferre potuit per cartam ipsius Regis quam hie profert et que
hoc testatur. Et dicit quod cum controversia mota fuit coram dicto
domino Henrico quondam rege etc. inter tunc monachos Rievallenses
et Canonicos predictos super pastura predicta, per precem et con-
cessionem ipsius Regis amicabili composicione* terminata fuit, scilicet
quod prefati monachi concesserunt predictis Canonicis ut habeant in
predicta pastura sua per divisas predictas in vasto subtus Pikeryng
imperpetuum predictos triginta boves quibus colant terram suam de
Malton et duos tauros et triginta vaccas quarum vituli cum fuerint
unius anni de predicta pastura removebuntur. Et similiter iidem
monachi concesserunt quod predicti Canonici habeant infra divisas
predictas excepto prato turbas sufficientes ad proprios suos usus per
factum ipsius Regis Henrici inter predictos monachos et Canonicos
indentatum quod hie profert et quod hoc testatur. Et dicit quod
predicti Canonici virtute cartarum predictarum semper a tempore
confeccionis earundem habuerunt piscariam predictam, et similiter
communam pasture et turbarie predictas excepto prato, et ipse similiter
inde seisitus est semper a tempore predicto absque aliquali interrup-
cione, et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros istius foreste prout
Curia etc. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet
forestarii, viridarii et regardatores dicunt super sacramentum suum
quod idem Prior qui nunc est et Priores et Canonici predecessores
sui semper a tempore confeccionis cartarumf predictarum habuerunt
piscariam predictam et communam pasture per divisas predictas in
prato predicto per tempus predictum, similiter communam turbarie
infra divisas predictas excepto prato sine interrupcione aliquali, prout

could confer by virtue of his royal prerogative by deed, which they also
produce. When a dispute arose in the King's Court between the monks
of Rievaulx and the canons of Malton about the common of pasture,
at the King's request the matter was amicably arranged, and the
monks granted to the canons common of pasture for ever in the waste
land below Pickering for thirty oxen with which they till the land at
Malton, two bulls and thirty cows, whose calves are to be removed as
soon as they exceed the age of one year. They likewise granted that
the canons might have turves, except in the meadow, sufficient for the
use of their house. The arrangement was contained in a deed which
they produce.

They are ready to prove that they have enjoyed the rights claimed
without interruption from the dates of the several deeds. An inquiry

* This composition is set out at Malton Coucher, fol. 28, and Rievaulx Chart.,
p. 139. t Et composicionutn added in Malton Coucher.

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idem Prior superius clamat. Ideo consideratum est quod idem Prior
eat inde sine die, salvo semper jure etc.

Henricus* de Percy clamat tenere manerium de Semere cum
boscis ejusdem manerii extra regardum foreste de Pikeryng, et
habere wodewardum in boscis suis predictis portantem arcum
et sagittas ad presentandum presentanda de venacione tantum,
et liberam warennam in manerio predicto ubique, et ibidem fugare
et capere vulpes, lepores, capriolos, catos et tessones infra manerium
predictum tarn infra cooperturam quam extra, et erradicare
[sic] brueram in mora de Semere et illam vendere et dare pro
voluntate sua, et habere in boscis suis de Semere forgeas et
mineram, vaccariam et bercariam pro voluntate sua, et agistare et
habere agistamentum infra manerium suum predictum ubique, scilicet
in boscis, moris et alibi infra predictum manerium, et amputare, dare et
vendere boscum suum infra manerium suum predictum sine visu
forestariorum pro voluntate sua. Et idem Henricus ponit loco suo
Johannem de Shirebourn in loquela predicta et aliis placitis et querelis
pro ipso vel contra ipsum [315b] motis vel movendis versus quos-
cumque durante itinere etc. Postea dominus Rex mandavit Justiciariis
hie breve suum clausum in hec verba. Edwardus Dei gracia Rex
Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie Justiciariis itinerantibus
ad placita foreste in foresta Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de Pikeryng
salutem. Mandamus vobis quod dilectum et fidelem nostrum

is directed; the Jury find in favour of the claims, which are conse-
quently allowed.

Henry de Percy claims to hold the manor of Seamer with its
woods outside the regard of the forest ; and to have a woodward in the
woods carrying a bow and arrows to present only offences of venison
that should be presented, and to have a free warren in the manor, and
to hunt and take foxes, hares, roedeer, wild cats, and badgers within
the manor, as well within the covert as without, and to uproot heather
in Seamer Moor, and sell it and give it away at pleasure, and to have
the minerals and smelting-places, cow-houses and sheep-folds in Seamer
woods at pleasure, and to agist and have the agistments everywhere
within the manor, in woods, moors and elsewhere, and to cut, give
and sell wood within his manors at his own pleasure without view of
the foresters. He also appointed John de Shirebourn as his attorney
in this claim. Afterwards he obtained a writ of protection from the

* This was the second Lord Percy of Alnwick, born 1301, died February 27, 1352.
He had taken a prominent part in the battle of Halidon Hill, where the Scots had
been defeated on July 19, 1333. On August 14, 1334 (see Pat. Rolls, 8 Ed. III.,
pt. 2, mm. 14, 36), his eldest son, then about fourteen years old, was betrothed to
Mary, daughter of Henry Earl of Lancaster.

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Henricum de Percy qui in obsequio nostro per perceptum nostrum in
partibus de Berewico super Twedam moratur occasione alicujus
placiti ipsum in itinere isto contingentis coram vobis in aliquo
non molestetis, nee gravetis, nee placitum aliquod inde teneatis
quamdiu in obsequio nostro steterit supradicto, et quod omnia
placita et alia ipsum Henricum in itinere predicto qualiter-
cumque tangencia remaneant in eodem statu in quo nunc sunt
usque ad festum Pasche proxime futurum. Teste me ipso apud
Westmonasterium xxvij die Septembris anno regni nostri octavo. Et
virtute cujus brevis loquela predicta remanebat usque ad predictum
festum Pasche in eodem statu quo nunc etc. Postea die Lune
proximo post mensem predicte Pasche apud Pikeryng coram prefatis
Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. predictus
Henricus de Percy per attornatum suum predictum venit et virtute
literarum dicti Comitis Lancastrie prefatis Justiciariis inde directarum
datus est dies usque diem Martis proximum post tres septimanas Sancti
Michaelis etc. apud Pikeryng in loquela predicta in eodem statu quo
prius etc. Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Shardelowe Justiciariis etc. venit predictus
Henricus de Percy per attornatum suum predictum et adhuc virtute
aliarum litterarum dicti Comitis prefatis Justiciariis directarum datus
est dies inde prefato Henrico usque diem Jovis proximum post octabas
Purificacionis beate Marie in eodem statu quo nunc etc. Ad quem
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Johanne de Hambury et Ricardo
de la Pole posito loco predicti Johannis de Shardelowe unius Justicia-
riorum ad itinerandum etc. assignatorum per diversa brevia etc. que
alibi irrotulantur, venit predictus Henricus de Percy per attornatum
suum predictum, et deinde per aliam litteram ipsius Comitis prefatis
Justiciariis directam inde datus est dies prefato Henrico per attornatum
suum predictum usque diem Mercurii proximum post festum Ascensionis
Domini apud Pikeryng in eodem statu quo nunc etc. [Here follow as
before at p. 72 statements that the Justices could not be present and
that a new writ was issued.] [316] Pretextu cujus brevis preceptum est
vicecomiti Eboracensi quod resummoniri faciat predictum Henricum
Percy quod sit coram prefatis Justiciariis, tribus vel duobus eorum
apud Pikeryng die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Andree apostoli,
ita quod placita et processus tunc sint ibidem in eodem statu in quo
fuerunt apud Pikeryng predicto die Jovis proximo post octabas Purifi-

King, dated at Westminster, 27 September, 1334, adjourning any
case in which he was interested until the Easter following on the
ground that he was then serving at Berwick-at-Tweed. Owing to
letters from Henry Earl of Lancaster, and similar writs of protection

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cacionis beate Marie anno regni domini Regis nunc decimo quando
atterminata fuerunt usque diem Mercurii proximum post festum Ascen-
sionis Domini proximum sequentem apud Pikeryng ; ad quern diem
placita et processus predicta remanserunt sine die per absenciam tarn
predictorum Johannis de Hambury et Ricardi de la Pole quam predic-
torum Ricardi de Wylughby et Roberti de Hungerford Justiciariorum
etc. alibi de mandato domini Regis nunc existencium. Ad quem diem
Lune proximum post festum Sancti Andree [316b] apostoli apud Pike-
ryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury
Justiciariis etc. predictus Henricus de Percy per breve domini Regis
sub testimonio predicti Ricardi de Wylughby prout etc. resummonitus
per attornatum suum venit et profert quoddam breve domini Regis
clausum prefatis Justiciariis hie directum in hec verba. Edwardus Dei
gracia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie Justiciariis
itinerantibus ad placita foreste Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de Pikeryng
salutem. Volentes indempnitati dilecti et fidelis nostri Henrici de
Percy qui in obsequio nostro in partibus Scocie moratur prospicere ut
tenemur, vobis mandamus quod omnia placita in itinere predicto ipsum
Henricum qualitercumque contingencia continuetis in eodem statu quo
nunc sunt usque ad festum Pasche proxime futurum etc. Teste me
ipso apud Stryvelyn decimo die Novembris anno regni nostri decimo.
Virtute cujus brevis datus est inde dies prefato Henrico de Percy per
attornatum suum predictum usque idem festum Pasche apud Pikeryng
in eodem statu quo nunc etc. Infra quod terminum apud Pikeryng
coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby, et Johanne de Hambury Justi-
ciariis etc. die Lune in secunda septimana Quadragesime venit predictus
Henricus per attornatum suum predictum, et dominus Rex mandavit
Justiciariis predictis breve suum clausum in hec verba. Edwardus
Dei gracia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie Justi-
ciariis itinerantibus ad placita foreste in foresta Henrici Comitis
Lancastrie de Pikeryng salutem. Volentes indempnitati dilecti et
fidelis nostri Henrici de Percy qui in obsequio nostro in partibus Scocie
moratur prospicere ut tenemur, vobis mandamus quod omnia placita
in itinere predicto ipsum Henricum qualitercumque contingencia con-
tinuetis in eodem statu quo nunc sunt usque ad festum Sancti Michaelis
proxime futurum. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium decimo die
March anno regni nostri undecimo. Virtute cujus brevis datus est inde
dies prefato Henrico per attornatum suum predictum usque idem festum

from the King, one dated at Stirling, 10 November, 1336, another
dated Westminster, 10 March, 1337, and the last dated Stamford,
28 June, 1337, the trial was eventually fixed for Tuesday, 15 Sep-
tember, 1338,

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Sancti Michaelis apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis etc. in eodem
statu quo nunc etc. Infra quod terminum Sancti Michaelis apud
Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury
Justiciariis etc. die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Mathei apostoli
venit predictus Henricus de Percy per attornatum suum predictum, et
dominus Rex mandavit prefatis Justiciariis breve suum clausum hie in
hec verba [a similar writ of protection ending] usque ad festum Natalis
Domini proxime futurum. Teste me ipso apud Staunford xxviij die
Junii anno regni nostri undecimo. Virtute cujus brevis datus est dies
inde prefato Henrico de Percy per attornatum suum predictum usque
idem festum Natalis Domini apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis
etc. in eodem statu quo nunc etc.

Postea apud Pickeryng [317] die Lune proximo ante festum
Dominice in Ramis Palmarum anno regni Domini Regis nunc duo-
decimo coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury
Justiciariis etc. venit predictus Henricus de Percy per attornatum
suum predictum, et datus est ei dies usque diem Martis proximum
post festum Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis apud Pikeryng coram prefatis
Justiciariis etc. ad predicta clamia sua placitanda et prosequenda si
sibi viderit expedire. Ad quem diem Martis proximum post festum
Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venit predictus
Henricus de Percy in propria persona sua ad clamia sua prosequenda,
et dicit quod ipse et omnes antecessores sui tenentes manerium de
Semere predictum a tempore quo non extat memoria tenuerunt
manerium predictum extra regardum foreste predicte, et habuerunt
wodewardum portantem arcum et sagittas et ad presentandum pre-
sentanda de venacione tantum, et habuerunt liberam warennam in
manerio predicto ubique, et ibidem fugarunt et ceperunt vulpes,
lepores, capriolos, catos et tessones tarn infra coopertum quam extra,
et eradicarunt brueram in mora de Semere *sine visu forestariorum
pro voluntate sua ubique* predicta et illam vendiderunt et dederunt
pro voluntate sua, et habuerunt in boscis de Semere forgeas et mineras,
vaccarias et bercarias et agistarunt et habuerunt agistamenta infra
manerium predictum de Semere sine visu forestariorum pro voluntate
sua ubique in boscis, moris et alibi infra dictum manerium, et ampu-
tarunt et dederunt et vendiderunt boscum suum infra manerium suum

On this day Henry de Percy appeared in person before the

Justices, Richard de Willoughby and John de Hambury, and was

ready to prove that he and all his ancestors holding the manor of

Seamer have from time immemorial enjoyed the rights claimed above.

* Between these words there is written vacat in Exchequer.

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predictum sine visu forestariorum pro voluntate sua absque interrup-
cione allquali, et hoc paratus est verificare per ministros istius foreste
etc. Ideo inquiratur inde Veritas per eosdem. Qui scilicet forestarii,
viridarii et regardatores ad hoc jurati dicunt super sacramentum suum
quod predictus Henricus de Percy et omnes antecessores sui tenentes
manerium predictum a tempore quo non extat memoria et sine inter-
rupcione aliquali tenuerunt predictum manerium de Semere cum
pertinenciis ejusdem manerii extra regardum foreste, et habuerunt
wodewardum portantem arcum et sagittas ad presentandum presentanda
de venacione tantum, et habuerunt liberam warennam in manerio pre-
diclo ubique, et ibidem fugarunt et ceperunt vulpes, lepores, catos,
capriolos et tessones tam infra coopertum quam extra, et eradicarunt
brueram in mora et illam vendiderunt et dederunt pro voluntate sua,
et habuerunt in boscis suis de Semere forgeas et mineras, vaccarias
et bercarias, et agistarunt et agistamenta habuerunt infra manerium
predictum ubique in boscis et moris et alibi infra dictum manerium, et
amputarunt et dederunt et vendiderunt boscum suum infra manerium
predictum sine visu forestariorum pro voluntate sua, sicut idem
Henricus de Percy superius clamat. Et quia compertum est per vere-
dictum ministrorum istius foreste quod idem Henricus de Percy et
omnes antecessores sui tenentes manerium predictum habuerunt wode-
wardum suum portantem arcum et sagittas in boscis suis predictis qui
sunt infra limites foreste predicte ad presentandum presentanda de
venacione tantum, qui quidem wodewardus portans [317b] hujusmodi
arcum et sagittas est contra assisam foreste et de facili cedere posset
in destruccionem ferarum domini ejusdem foreste, maxime cum quilibet

An inquiry is directed, and it is found that Henry de Percy and his
ancestors holding the manor of Seamer have enjoyed the rights
claimed from time immemorial without interruption. Since the verdict
found that Henry de Percy and all his ancestors while holding the
manor had their woodward carrying a bow and arrows in their woods
within the forest to present offences of venison only, which is contrary
to the assize of the forest and might easily tend to the destruction
of the Earl's game, especially as by the assize of the forest each wood-
ward ought to carry a hatchet only, and not a bow and arrow, so as
to avoid all suspicion of poaching, and to present offences of vert as
well as venison; since, moreover, it was also found that Henry de Percy
and all his ancestors have hunted and taken roes* at pleasure in his

* From this word Serjeant Fleetwood, in his reading on the Pickering Eyre,
at fol. 23, infers that in early times goats were hunted. A note, however, in
Agarde's Index, CVL, fol. 103d, puts the matter right : — "Nota hie Capriolum dici
bestiam de Warrena et ut credo illam esse bestiam quam Anglice vocamus a Roe."

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wodewardus per assisam foreste portare debeat in foresta hachettum et
non arcum et sagittas pro sinistra suspicione venacionis deponenda, ad
presentandum tarn de viridi quam de venacione. Et similiter cora-
pertum est per eosdem quod idem Henricus de Percy et omnes
antecessores sui predicti fugarunt et ceperunt capriolos in boscis suis
predictis tarn infra coopertum quam extra pro voluntate sua, que bestia
est venacionis foreste, de qua transgressione* inde convicti alias tem-
pore quo foresta predicta fuit in manuf domini Edwardi quondam
Regis Anglie avi domini Regis nunc fecerunt finem utpro transgressione
venacionis, prout manifeste liquet prefatis Justiciariis hie per recordum
Willelmi de Vescy et sociorum suorum Justiciariorum dudum tempore
dicti avi domini Regis nunc ad itinerandum ad placita foreste in
Comitatu Eboracensi assignatorum de mandato dicti domini Regis
nunc ad Cancellarium suum eis missa [? a Cancellaria sua eismissumJJ
Ideo quoad clamium predictum pro eo quod Justiciarii predicti
nondum avisantur ad judicium inde reddendum datus est dies eidem
Henrico coram domino Rege in Crastino Animarum ubicumque etc. de
audiendo inde judicio suo, et dictum est eidem Henrico quod interim
sequatur breve de venire faciendo inde recordum etc. Et quoad
residuum clamiorum predictorum etc. consideratum est quod idem
Henricus eat inde sine die, salvo semper jure etc. Postea dominus
Rex mandavit prefato Ricardo de Wylughby breve suum in hec verba.
Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aqui-
tannie dilecto et fideli suo Ricardo de Wylughby salutem. Cum vos
et socii vestri Justiciarii nostri ad placita foreste in foresta Henrici
Comitis Lancastrie de Pikeryng in Comitatu Eboracensi tenenda

woods as well within the covert as without, which animal is a beast of
the forest, for which offence poachers were convicted and fined when the
forest was in King Henry's [?] hands, as clearly appears from the rolls
sent from chancery of the Eyre of William de Vescy and his fellows
appointed Justices in Eyre in the time of Edward I ; the determina-
tion of this question is therefore removed into the Court of King's
Bench, whose next sittings commenced on the morrow of All Saints,
and Henry de Percy is in the meantime directed to sue out a writ of
venire facias recordum, etc. The remainder of the claims are allowed.
The writ was issued by Edward Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester,
Keeper of England, dated Kennington, 16 October, 1338 ; and after-
wards a writ of certiorari was also issued by the same Prince, dated

* In Coram Rege Roll, 13 Edw. III., Hil. Term, r. 106, we find transgressores.
t I think that this was not the case, but the explanation seems to have been that
the Eyre was temp. Edw. I., the offence temp. Henry III.
X Sic in Coram Rege Roll tit stipra.

170 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

assignati quedam clamia de diversis libertatibus per dilectum et fidelem
nostrum Henricum de Percy coram vobis et sociis vestris predictis in
eadem foresta habendis facta propter quasdam difficultates in eisdem
clamiis contentas* coram nobis adjornaveritis ut accepimus, vobis
mandamus quod si ita est omnia clamia predicta necnon recordum et
processus inde coram vobis habita coram nobis ubicumque fuerimus in
Anglia sub sigillo vestro sine dilacione mittatis juxta adjornamentum
predictum hoc breve nobis remittentes. T. Edwardo Duce Cornubie,
Comite Cestrie filio nostro carissimo Custode Anglie apud Kenyngton
xvj die Octobris anno regni nostri duodecimo. Virtute cujus brevis
clamia predicta necnon recordum et processus predicta mittuntur
coram Rege ad diem predictum una cum brevi predicto. Postea
dominus Rex mandavit prefato Ricardo de Wylughby quoddam aliud
breve clausum in hec verba. Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie,
Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie dilecto et fideli suo Ricardo de
Wylughby salutem. Volentes certis de causis cerciorari super clamiis per
dilectum et fidelem nostrum Henricum de Percy coram vobis et sociis
vestris nuper Justiciariis nostris ad placita foreste in foresta dilecti et
fidelis nostri Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de Pikeryng tenenda assignatis
de diversis libertatibus in eadem foresta habendis appositis, et de recordo
et processu inde habitis ac eciam [318] de allocacionibus inde factis,
vobis mandamus recordum et processum super clamiis predictis et
allocacionibus inde factis coram vobis et sociis vestris predictis habita
cum omnibus ea tangentibus nobis in Cancellariam nostram sub
sigillo vestro distincte et aperte sine dilacione mittatis et hoc breve.
T. Edwardo Duce Cornubie et Comite Cestrie filio nostro carissimo
Custode Anglie apud Berkhamsted xxv die Aprilist anno regni nostri
terciodecimo. Pretextu cujus brevis clamia predicta allocata mittuntur
coram domino Rege in Cancellariam suam una cum brevi predicto.
[It may not be out of place here to interpose the conclusion of the

at Berkhampstead, 25 April, 1339, by virtue of which the claim was
removed into the Court of King's Bench.

On the 3rd November, 1338, Henry de Percy appeared by John de
Kirkby, his attorney, in the Court of King's Bench, and the 26th
January, 1339, was appointed for giving judgment, on which day he
appeared in his own person and asked for judgment in accordance with
the verdict. After examining the claims and the record, and after full
argument and consideration with the Chancellor, Treasurer, Justices
and others of the King's Council, judgment was eventually given that
although in the time of Edward I., when the forest was in the King's^

* In the Coram Rege Roll, 13 Ed. III., Hil. Term, Ro. 106, we find intervenientes.
t This was after judgment had been given. See post. % See note, p. 169.

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Coram Rege Roll above referred to, which, after reciting the proceed-
ings at Pickering, continues in these words] : —

Ad quem diem coram domino Rege venit predictus Henricus per
Johannem de Kyrkeby attornatum suum, et datus est ei dies coram
domino Rege a die Sancti Hillarii in xv dies ubicumque etc. de
audiendo inde judicio suo. Ad quem diem coram domino Rege
venit predictus Henricus in propria persona sua, et petit quod Justi-
ciarii hie procedant ad judicium inde reddendum secundum tenorem
veredicti predicti. Et super hoc visis et examinatis clameis ac recordo
et processu predictis et habito inde tractatu et diligenti diliberacione
cum Cancellario, Thesaurario, Justiciariis et aliis de consilio domini
Regis, quod licet tempore domini Edwardi quondam Regis Anglie, avi
domini Regis nunc, quo tempore predicta foresta fuit in manu ipsius
avi domini Regis nunc, transgressores qui convicti erant de capcione
capriolorum fecerunt finem pro transgressione venacionis foreste, prout
per recordum predicti Willelmi de Vescy et sociorum suorum est com-
pertum, videtur tamen Justiciariis hie et consilio domini Regis quod
caprioli sunt bestie de warenna et non de foresta, eo quod fugant alias
feras de foresta ; et ex quo compertum est per veredictum predictum
quod predictus Henricus de Percy et omnes antecessores sui tenentes
manerium de Semere a tempore quo non extat memoria et sine inter-
rupcione aliquali fugaverunt in boscis suis predicti manerii tarn infra
coopertum quam extra, et ceperunt capriolos pro voluntate sua, et
eciam habuerunt in boscis suis ejusdem manerii wodewardum suum
portantem arcum et sagittas ad presentandum presentanda de vena-
cione tantum, et non est compertum in eodem veredicto quod idem
wodewardus aliquam destruccionem ferarum ejusdem foreste aut
aliquod aliud malum in eadem foresta fecit, ideo dictum est eidem
Henrico quod eat inde sine die salvo jure etc.

hands, certain offenders who had been convicted of taking roes in the
forest were fined for poaching, as appears by the rolls of William de
Vescy and his fellows, yet it appears to the Justices and the King's
Council that roes are beasts of the warren, not of the forest, because
they fly from other beasts of the warren. Again, since it was found
by the verdict that Henry de Percy and all his ancestors while holding
the manor of Seamer from time immemorial and without interruption,
have hunted in his woods of the manor as well within the covert as
without, and taken roes at pleasure, and also had a woodward in his
woods of the same manor carrying a bow and arrows to present offences
of venison only, and it was not found that the woodward had destroyed
the game or done any other evil in the forest, the claims are therefore
allowed.

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Ballivi et Communitas burgi de Scardeburgh clamant quod Justiciarii
itinerantes ad placita foreste veniant in burgo de Scardeburgh ad omnia
placita foreste et omnes querelas foreste ipsos tangencia ibidem placi-
tanda et terminanda, et esse quieti de chiminagio per totam forestam de
Pikeryng, et clamant predictum burgum et manerium de Whallesgrave
esse extra regardum et deafforestata, et quod nullus forestarius nee
minister foreste vel aliquis alius preter ipsos burgenses intromittant
se de aliquibus attachiamentis, summonicionibus aut districcionibus
faciendis infra manerium predictum pro aliqua re ad forestam perti-
nente, et similiter quod si aliquis predictorum burgensium rettati,
indictati aut attachiati fuerint pro venacione vel alia transgressione
foreste, quod liceat eis se defendere de transgressionibus illis per sacra-
mentum triginta et sex hominum coram quibuscumque Justiciariis de
foresta, nisi per viridarios aut forestarios de feodo inventi fuerint cum
manuopere, et dicunt quod dominus Henricus quondam Rex Anglie,
progenitor domini Regis nunc, per cartam suam concessit burgensibus
ville predicte quod Justiciarii itinerantes ad placita foreste venient in
burgo predicto ad omnia placita foreste et omnes querelas foreste
ibidem [? ipsos] tangencia ibidem placitanda et terminanda, et similiter
dominus Henricus proavus domini Regis nunc, per cartam suam similiter
concessit burgensibus predictis quod si aliquis predictorum burgensium
rettati, indictati aut attachiati fuerint pro venacione vel aliqua trans-
gressione foreste, quod liceat eis se defendere de trangressionibus illis

The bailiffs and commonalty of Scarborough claim that the Justices
in Eyre of the forest ought to come to the borough of Scarborough
to hear and determine all pleas and other matters relating to the
forest, and that they ought to be quit of cheminage throughout the
whole forest of Pickering, and that the said borough and the manor
of Falsgrave are outside the regard and disafforested, and that no
forester or officer of the forest or anyone else except the burgesses
themselves ought to intermeddle by making any attachments, sum-
monses, or distraints for matters relating to the forest within the manor,
and likewise that if any of the burgesses are accused, indicted or
attached for poaching or any other forest offence, they may purge
themselves by the oath of thirty-six men before the Justices of the
Forest, whoever they be, unless they are caught in the act by the
verderers or foresters of fee. They say that King Henry II. granted
by deed to the burgesses of the town that the Justices in Eyre of
the Forest should come into the borough to hear and determine all
pleas and complaints relating to them, and likewise that King
Henry III. granted to the burgesses that any of them who might be
accused, indicted or attached for poaching or any other offence of the

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per sacramentum triginta et sex hominum coram quibuscumque Justi-
ciariis de foresta nisi per viridarios aut forestarios de feodo inventi
fuerint cum manuopere. Quas quidem concessiones dominus Edwardus
quondam Rex Anglie, pater domini Regis nunc, illas recitando con-
cessit et confirmavit ; et dicunt quod virtute cartarum predictarum ipsi
usi fuerunt libertatibus predictis tempore quo foresta et castrum pre-
dicta fuerunt in manu progenitoris domini Regis nunc ; et dicunt quod
pretextu cartarum predictarum Willelmus de Vescy et socii sui Justiciarii
domini Edwardi avi domini Regis nunc itinerantes ad placita foreste
venerunt apud Scardeburgh ad omnia placita foreste et omnes querelas
ejusdem foreste ipsos tangencia ibidem placitanda et terminanda, et
burgenses rettati, indictati seu attachiati pro transgressione venacionis
vel pro alia transgressione foreste admissi fuerunt ad se defendendos
per sacramentum triginta et sex hominum, nisi per viridarios aut fores-
tarios de feodo inventi fuerint cum manuopere ut predictum est, et de
hoc vocat recordum rotulorum predictorum [3r8b] in Thesaurario
domini Regis existencium. Dicunt eciam quod idem Henricus pro-
genitor domini Regis nunc concessit eis quod ipsi essent quieti de
chiminagio per totam forestam predictam, et quod tenerent predicta
burgum et manerium extra regardum foreste, et quod nullus forestarius
nee minister foreste vel aliquis alius preter ipsos burgenses se intro-
mitterent de aliquibus attachiamentis aut districcionibus faciendis infra
manerium predictum pro aliqua re ad forestam pertinente, per cartam

forest, might purge themselves by the oath of thirty-six men before
the Justices, whoever they might be, unless they were caught in the act
by the verderers or foresters of fee. These grants Edward II. inspected
and confirmed, and they have enjoyed the liberties so granted from the
time when the castle and forest were in the hands of the Kings of
England. For instance, William de Vescy and his fellow Justices in
Eyre of the forest appointed by Edward I. came to Scarborough to
hear and determine all pleas and complaints of the forest relating to
them, and all the burgesses accused, indicted or attached for poaching
or any other forest offence were permitted to purge themselves by the
oath of thirty-six men, unless they were caught in the act by the
verderers or foresters of fee. They refer to the rolls of the Eyre then
in the King's Treasury. Further they say that Henry II. granted to
them by deed to be quit of cheminage throughout the whole forest,
and to hold the said borough and manor outside the regard of the
forest, and that no forester or officer of the forest or anyone else
except the burgesses themselves should intermeddle by making any
attachments or distraints within the manor in respect of any forest
offence. They produce the deed and say that by virtue of all the

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ipsius progenitoris quam hie proferunt et que hoc testatur. Virtute
quarum cartarum ipsi et eorum antecessors, burgenses ville predicte,
semper a tempore predicto usque nunc usi sunt et gavisi libertatibus
predictis absque interrupcione aliquali, et de hoc ponunt se super
ministros ejusdem foreste. Et super hoc datus est eis dies apud
Pikeryng coram eisdem Justiciariis die Lune proximo post festum Sancti
Gregorii Pape de habendo recordum predictum si etc., et residuum
clamii sui interim remaneat inquirendum etc. Ad quem diem apud
Pikeryng venerunt Ballivi et Communitas predicta et nondum habent
recordum etc., et datus est dies apud Pikeryng etc. die Lune proximo
post mensem Pasche et dictum est eis quod interim sequantur recordum
si etc. Ad quem diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo et
Johanne Justiciariis etc. venerunt Ballivi et Communitas predicta, et
super hoc datus est eis dies usque diem Martis proximum post tres
septimanas Sancti Michaelis apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis
etc. et dictum est eis quod interim sequantur recordum. Ad quem
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de
Shardelowe venerunt predicti Ballivi et Communitas predicta et nondum
habent recordum etc., et deinde datus est eis inde dies apud Pikeryng
coram prefatis Justiciariis usque diem Jovis proximum post octabas
Purificacionis beate Marie et interim sequantur recordum etc. Ad quem
diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Johanne de Hambury et Ricardo
de la Pole posito loco predicti Johannis de Shardelowe unius Justi-
ciariorum ad itinerandum etc. assignatorum per diversa brevia etc. que
alibi irrotulantur etc. venerunt predicti Ballivi et Communitas et
nondum habent recordum etc., et deinde datus est eis inde dies apud
Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis etc. usque diem Mercurii proximum
post festum Ascenscionis Domini et interim sequantur recordum etc.
Ad quem diem [Again, as at p. 72, ante, a statement that the Eyre
abated and that the Bailiffs were summoned for the Monday next after
St. Andrew's Day] ad quem diem Lune proximum post festum Sancti
Andree apostoli apud [319b] Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardi de
Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt predicti
Ballivi et Communitas per breve domini Regis sub testimonio Ricardi de
Wylughby etc. resummoniti et nondum habent recordum etc. et deinde
datus est eis dies apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis usque diem

deeds they have enjoyed without interruption from the dates
thereof the several liberties claimed. They are directed to produce
the rolls on Monday, 13 March, 1335, and the claims are adjourned.
Neither on that day nor on the several sittings of the Court up to Tuesday,
15 September, 1338, were the bailiffs and commonalty able to obtain
and produce the original rolls as on each occasion they had been

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Lune in secunda septimana Quadragesime et interim sequantur recordum
etc. Ad quern diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de
Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc., venerunt predicti
Ballivi et Communitas et nondum habent recordum etc., et super
hoc datus est eis dies apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis
usque diem proximum post festum Sancti Mathei apostoli et interim
sequantur recordum etc. Ad quern diem apud Pikeryng coram
Ricardo de Wilughby et Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc.
venerunt predicti Ballivi et Communitas et nondum habent recordum
etc., et super hoc datus est eis dies apud Pikeryng coram prefatis
Justiciariis usque diem Lune proximum post festum Dominice in Ramis
Palmarum apud Pikeryng et interim sequantur recordum etc. Ad
quern diem apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et
Johanne de Hambury Justiciariis etc. venerunt predicti Ballivi et
Communitas et nondum habent recordum etc., et super hoc datus est
eis dies apud Pikeryng coram prefatis Justiciariis etc. usque diem
Martis proximum post festum Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis, et dictum
est eis quod interim sequantur recordum etc. Ad quem diem Martis
proximum post festum Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis apud Pikeryng
coram prefatis Ricardo de Wylughby et Johanne de Hambury venerunt
predicti Ballivi et Communitas per attornatum suum et proferunt
quoddam breve domini Regis Justiciariis hie directum in hec verba.
Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aqui-
tannie dilectis et fidelibus suis Ricardo de Wylughby et sociis suis,
Justiciariis itinerantibus ad placita foreste in foresta de Pikeryng in
Comitatu Eboracensi, salutem. Cum per cartam domini Henrici
quondam Regis Anglie proavi nostri concessum sit burgensibus nostris
de Scardeburgh et hominibus manerii nostri de Wallesgrave quod si
aliquis burgensium predictorum vel hominum aut heredum suorum
rettati, indictati vel attachiati fuerint de venacione vel alia transgres-
-sione foreste, liceat eis se defendere de transgressionibus illis per
sacramentum triginta et sex hominum coram quibuscumque Justi-
ciariis de foresta, nisi per viridarios aut forestarios de feodo inventi
fuerint cum manuopere, sicut se defendunt de omnibus appellacionibus
eis factis, nisi de corpore Regis, prout in carta predicta plenius con-
tinetur; ac nos nuper ad prosecucionem eorundem burgensium et

directed to. At the last-mentioned sittings they appear and produce a
writ from the King to Richard de Willoughby and the other Justices of
the forest of Pickering, in which, after reciting that Henry III. had by
deed granted to the burgesses of Scarborough and the tenants of the
manor of Falsgrave that if any of them was accused, indicted or
attached for poaching or any other forest offence, he might purge

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hominum nobis suggerencium eandem libertatem eis coram Willelmo
de Vescy et sociis suis nuper Justiciariis domini Edwardi quondam
Regis Anglie, avi nostri, itinerantibus ad placita foreste in Comitatu
Eboracensi allocatam fuisse juxta tenorem carte supradicte, vosque
eandem libertatem eisdem burgensibus et hominibus allocare distulisse,
mandaverimus dilecto et fideli nostro Radulpho de Nevill, Capitali
Justiciario suo [? nostro] itineranti quod [? ad] placita foreste in dicto
Comitatu Eboracensi quod scrutatis rotulis predicti Willelmi de
itinere predicto, qui ei per Thesaurarium et Camerarios nuper liberati
fuerunt, et in custodia sua sic extiterunt, [320] tenorem recordi et
processus allocacionis libertatis predicte coram prefato Willelmo et
sociis suis predictis eisdem burgensibus et hominibus facte, nobis in
Cancellaria nostra sub sigillo suo distincte et aperte mitteret, mittimus
vobis sub pede sigilli nostri tenorem recordi et processus allocacionis
libertatis predicte coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra per predictum
Radulphum de mandato nostro predicto missum ; mandantes quod
eo inspecto ulterius ad prosecucionem eorundem burgensium et
hominum in hac parte fieri faciatis quod de jure fuerit faciendum.
Teste me ipso apud Sanctum Edmundum vj die Junii anno nostri
duodecimo.

Breve per quod recordum et processus allocacionis libertatis pre-
dicte venit in Cancellariam sequitur in hec verba. Edwardus Dei
gracia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie dilecto et
fideli suo Radulpho de Nevill Capitali Justiciario itinerante [sic] ad
placita foreste in Comitatu Eboracensi, salutem. Cum per cartam
domini Henrici quondam Regis Anglie proavi nostri concessum sit
burgensibus nostris de Scardeburgh et hominibus manerii nostri de
Wallesgrave quod si aliquis predictorum burgensium vel hominum aut
heredum suorum rettati, indictati vel attachiati fuerint de venacione
vel alia transgressione foreste, liceat eis se defendere de transgressioni-

himself before any Justices of the forest whatsoever by the oath of
thirty-six men, unless he was caught in the act by the verderers or
foresters of fee, in the same manner as he might purge himself of all
appeals except such as concern the King's person, and that the
burgesses alleged that this claim had been allowed before William de
Vescy and his fellow Justices of the Forest in the time of Edward I. ;
while the present Justices were delaying the allowance of it, the King
directed Ralph de Nevill, Chief Justice of the Forest, then on circuit
in Yorkshire, to examine the rolls of the Eyre of William de Vescy
which had been lately delivered to him by the Treasurer and Chamber-
lains, and were then in his custody, and to send an exemplification of
the record into the King's Chancery.

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bus illis per sacramentum triginta et sex hominum coram quibuscumque
Justiciariis de foresta, nisi per viridarios aut forestarios de feodo
inventi fuerint cum manuopere, sicut se defendunt de omnibus appella-
cionibus eis factis, nisi de corpore Regis, prout in carta predicta
plenius continetur; ac jam ex parte eorundem burgensium et hominum
nobis sit ostensum, quod licet eadem libertas eis coram Willelmo de
Vescy et sociis suis nuper Justiciariis domini Edwardi quondam Regis
Anglie, avi nostri, itinerantibus ad placita foreste in Comitatu Ebora-
censi allocata fuisset juxta tenorem carte sue predicte, dilecti tamen
et fideles nostri Ricardus de Wylughby et socii sui nunc Justiciarii
nostri itinerantes ad placita foreste in foresta de Pikeryng in Comitatu
predicto eandem libertatem eisdem burgensibus et hominibus hactenus
allocare distulerunt in ipsorum burgensium et hominum dispendium
non modicum et gravamen. Super quo nobis supplicarunt sibi per
nos remedium adhiberi. Nos advertentes expediens esse quod pre-
dictus Ricardus et socii sui predicti super recordo et processu alloca-
cionis libertatis predicte coram prefato Willelmo et sociis suis
predictis eisdem burgensibus et hominibus facte ea de causa cercioren-
tur, vobis mandamus quod scrutatis rotulis predicti Willelmi de
itinere predicto, qui vobis per Thesaurarium et Camerarium nostros
nuper liberati fuerunt et in custodia vestra sic existunt ut dicitur,
tenorem recordi et processus allocacionis hujusmodi nobis in Cancel-
lariam nostram sub sigillo vestro distincte et aperte mittatis et hoc
breve, ut ulterius in hac parte fieri faciamus quod de jure fuerit
faciendum. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium xiiij die Julii
anno regni nostri undecimo.

Quod quidem breve sic indorsatur : — Pretextu cujus brevis scrutari
fecimus rotulos de itinere Willelmi de Vescy et sociorum suorum
Justiciariorum itinerancium ad placita foreste in Comitatu Eboracensi
in custodia nostra existencium [? existentes], et tenorem recordi et

This exemplification the King sent on to Richard de Willoughby
and directed him, after inspecting it, to do justice to the burgesses. The
writ was dated St. Edmunds, 6 June, 1337. The writ to Ralph de Nevill,
directing him to send the exemplification into the King's Chancery,
followed. It was in similar terms, dated at Westminster, 14 July,
1337. It bore this indorsement : By virtue of this writ we have caused
to be inspected the rolls of the Forest Eyre in the County of York of
William de Vescy and his fellows which are in our custody, and an
exemplification of which we send sewn to this writ. The following is
the record of the Pleas of the Forest held at Scarborough in 1285-
1286 before Sir William de Vescy, Sir Thomas de Normanville and
Sir Richard de Crepping, Justices of the Forest itinerant in the County

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processus allocacionis facte burgensibus et hominibus infra scriptis in
itinere predicto vobis [320b] mittimus in quodam rotulo huic brevi
consuto, prout dictum breve requirit. Qui quidem tenor recordi et
processus allocacionis predicte sequitur in hec verba.

Placita foreste apud Scardeburgh anno regni Regis Edwardi xiiij°
coram dominis Willelmo de Vescy,* Thoma de Normanvilla et
Ricardo de Crepping, Justiciariis itinerantibus ad placita foreste in
Comitatu Eboracensi, placitata per viridarios et forestarios subscriptos
videlicet per Adam filium Radulphi de Roston et Galfridum filium
Bartholomei de Scalby, viridarios, Rogerum le Bygot Comitem
Norfolcie et Marescallum Anglie, Forestarium feodi et sub ipso
Thomam de Edbreston, Robertum de Harewode, Robertum de
Seteryngton, Rogerum Buchard, Willelmum Godeworld, Robertum del
Frith, Ricardum filium Andree, Rogerum de Toftes et Nicholaum de
Levesham forestarios juratos. Qui quidem Comes forestarius de feodo
et subforestarii sui predicti non responderunt de aliqua presentacione
transgressionis venacionis nee viridis nee aliquo attachiamento facto de
eisdem transgressionibus, ideo de ipso Comite loquendum est cum
Rege, quia Baro.

Presentatum est et convictum per forestarios et viridarios quod
Walterus de Lithebek mortuus, Ricardus Swan, Adam de Lythum
exigatus, Richerus Haldayn mortuus et alii ignoti fuerunt in foresta
domini Regis in Crastino Purificacionis beate Marie Virginis anno regni
Regis Henrici hoc [?] in Haia de Scalby et ceperunt unum capriolum,
et habuerunt. [? Henricus] Thaurus adduxit unum equum carcatum de

of York by the verderers and foresters mentioned, namely, Adam, son
of Ralph de Ruston, and Geoffrey, son of Bartholomew de Scalby,
verderers, Roger le Bygot, Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshall, forester
of fee, and under him Thomas de Ebberston, Robert de Harwood,
Robert de Settrington, Roger Buchard, William Goodworld, Robert
del Frith, Richard son of Andrew, Roger de Tofts, and Nicholas de
Levisham, sworn foresters. The Earl as forester of fee and his under
foresters refused to present any offences of venison or vert, or to make
any attachment thereupon. The Earl being a Baron must answer for
this before the King himself.

Walter de Lithebeck (deceased), Richard Swan, Adam de Upleatham
(put in exigent), Richard Haldane (deceased), and others unknown, were
presented for that on 3rd February, in the reign of Henry III., they
took a roe in Scalby Hay. One Henry Bull, who was not to be found

* In the Printed Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1281-1292, pp. 187, 220, 252, we find
the same Justices appointed to hold Forest Eyres in the Counties of Cumberland,
Northampton, Nottingham, and Lancaster.

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venacione ad domum Matillis la Beriere in Scardeburgh, qui predictus
Henricus non est inventus nee habet terram etc., nee aliquis etc., ideo
exigatur. Et predicta Matillis venit et dicit quod predicta presentacio
ei non debet nocere, pro eo quod dominus Rex concessit burgensibus
suis de Scardeburgh et heredibus eorum hanc libertatem, quod si quis
burgensium vel hominum manerii de Waldesgrave arrentatus
[? rettatus] aut attachiatus fuerit de venacione vel alia transgressione
foreste, liceat eis se defendere de transgressionibus predictis per sacra-
mentum triginta et sex hominum coram quibuscumque Justiciariis de
foresta, nisi inventus fuerit per forestarios aut viridarios de feodo [sic]
cum manuopere, et burgenses proferunt cartam Regis Henrici que hoc
testatur. Et quia predicta Matillis non fuit inventa cum manuopere sicut
predictum est, ideo concessum est ei quod se acquietet modo predicto,
et postea venit et fecit finem pro sacramento relaxando pro dimidia
marca per plegium Thome de Wandesford et Roberti Beaufrount.

Presentatum quod die Jovis proximo ante Natale Domini

fuerunt quatuor homines extranei in bosco de Aton et ceperunt unum
cervum et exierunt mane de domo Gregorii de Suthfeld mortui; ideo
de eo nichil et de quatuor ignotis nichil potest fieri etc.

Presentatum quod Reynus Lagan mortuus, Willelmus

Larcher de Uskelf et Simon de Heselslak ceperunt unum cervum in
Haia predicta die Mercurii proximo ante festum Sancti Johannis de
Beverlaco anno supradicto, qui predictus Simon est alibi exigatus et
Willelmus le Archer est alibi in presentacione.

and is therefore outlawed, loaded it on a horse and led it to the house
of Matilda la Beriere in Scarborough. Matilda appears and pleads the
claim of the burgesses of Scarborough. As it was not found that she
had been caught in the act she was permitted to acquit herself in the
accustomed manner. Afterwards the obligation of offering the oath is
remitted in consideration of a fine of 6s 8d. Sureties, Thomas de
Wandesford and Robert Beaufront.

Four strangers were presented for having on the Thursday before
Christmas taken a stag in Ayton Wood. They had started in the
morning from the house of Gregory de Suffield. He is dead and the
strangers are unknown, so nothing can be done.

Reynus Logan (deceased), William the Archer of Uskelf,* and Simon
de Hazelslack were presented for having on the Wednesday before the
feast of St. John of Beverley taken a hart in Scalby Hay. William is
presented for another offence and Simon is put in exigent.

* Very little reliance can be placed on the orthography of these names. There
were two chances of error, first, when fourteenth-century scribes copied the original
thirteenth-century rolls, next when fifteenth-century scribes copied the fourteenth-
century copy.

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Presentatum quod Johannes films prepositi de Semere visus

fuit cum aliis malefactoribus de venacione causa malefaciendi de
venacione, qui venit [321] coram Justiciariis et super hoc convictus
liberatur prisone. Postea venit et finem fecit per xs et invenit etc.

Presentatum quod die Sancti Thome apostoli anno predicto

Nicholaus Harel et Thomas Boye mortui et viij alii extranei fuerunt in
foresta apud Blaklisgate et occiderunt duos cervos et quo duxerunt
venacionem nescitur. De viij extraneis nichil potest fieri et de aliis ut
supra, ideo nichil de eis etc.

Presentatum quod Willelmus filius Thome de Eketon,

Willelmus Thumbe alibi redemptus de Trollesdale, Rogerus de Hoton
fuerunt consueti malefactores de omnibus feris domini Regis in Haia
predicta, qui non venerunt nee prius etc., set Willelmus, Willelmus et
Rogerus manent in Comitatu Eboracensi, ideo preceptum est vice-
comiti etc. Et Rogerus non est inventus nee aliquid habet etc., nee
scitur etc., nee aliquis etc., ideo exigatur, et predictus Willelmus filius
Thome de Oketon [sic\ est redemptus apud Whiteby.

Presentatum quod Willelmus de Boyvill mortuus, Walterus

de Grendale mortuus, Adam de Lythum exigatus et Willelmus le Archer
qui presentatus est alibi die Jovis proximo ante Dominicam Palmarum
anno predicto occiderunt unam bissam et asportaverunt venacionem
Johanni Mortimer de Eketon, Constabulario Castri de Scardeburgh,
qui mortui sunt, ideo de eis nichil.

Presentatum .... quod Willelmus le Latymer pater et Willelmus
de Boyvill, Johannes Mygnot mortuus et Robertus de Hasthorp die
Mercurii proxime sequenti ceperunt duos capriolos in Haia predicta et

John son of the reeve of Seamer was seen in company with poachers
for the purpose of poaching. Fined 10s.

Nicholas Harel and Thomas Boye (both deceased) and eight strangers
on the feast of St. Thomas killed two harts in the forest at Blackleys
gate ; but where they took the game no one knows. Nothing done.

William son of Thomas of Egton, William Thumb of Trollesdale
(fined elsewhere), and Roger de Hutton were accustomed to poach in
Scalby Hay. Roger is put in exigent, and William son of Thomas of
Egton is fined at Whitby.

William de Boyvill (deceased), Walter de Grendale (deceased),
Adam de Upleatham (put in exigent), and William the Archer (in-
dicted elsewhere), on the Thursday before Palm Sunday killed a hind
and carried it to John Mortimer of Egton, Constable of Scarborough
Castle (deceased). Nothing done.

William le Latimer, senior, William de Boyvill, John Mignot
(deceased), and Robert de Hasthorp, on the following Wednesday took

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eos adduxerunt ad predictum castrum ; qui predictus Robertus non
venit nee prius etc., set testatum est quod manet in Comitatu Ebora-
censi, ideo preceptum est vicecomiti etc. Postea venit predictus
Robertus coram Justiciariis et super hoc convictus liberatur prisone.
Postea venit et fecit finem per j marcam et invenit manucaptores ut
patet etc.

Presentatum . . . quod die Sabbati proximo post Ascensionem
Domini anno predicto Rogerus de Comergesheved alibi redemptus,
Ricardus Swan mortuus occiderunt unam bissam apud Foulwode-
hepping in foresta, et asportaverunt quo voluerunt, ideo ut supra, et
Ricardus de Tweng alibi redemptus recepit partem dicte venacionis,
ideo de eo ut supra.

Presentatum .... quod Rogerus de Comergesheved et alii ignoti,
alibi redempti, occiderunt unum cervum apud Duntweth die Sabbati
in septimana Pasche anno eodem et eum asportaverunt ad domum
Ricardi de Tweng, qui alibi omnes sunt redempti, ideo de eis nichil.

Presentatum .... quod Patricius de Westerdale et Walterus de
Lythebek mortui et alii ignoti fuerunt consueti malefactores de vena-
cione domini Regis et fuerunt recepti ad domum predicti Ricardi de
Tweng superius redempti et ad domum Ricardi Pa in Scardeburgh, qui
predictus Ricardus Pa venit coram Justiciariis et paratus est se acquie-
tare per triginta et sex homines secundum tenorem carte predicte pro
eo quod non fuit inventus cum manuopere cum [? per] viridarios et
forestarios, et concessum est quod se acquietet, ideo venit et fecit
finem pro sacramento relaxando pro j marca per plegium Henrici
de Roston et Roberti Hamund; ideo ipse inde quietus pro fine
predicto.

two roedeers in the Hay and carried them to the Castle. Robert is
fined 13s 4d>

Roger de Comergeshead (fined elsewhere) and Richard Swan
(deceased) killed a hind at Fullwood hepping [?] on the Saturday after
Ascension Day and carried it whither they would, and Richard de
Tweng (fined elsewhere) received part of it.

Roger de Comergeshead and others unknown killed a hart at Dunt-
weth on Saturday in Easter week and carried it to the house of Richard
de Tweng.

Patrick de Westerdale and Walter de Lythebeck (both deceased),
were confirmed poachers and were harboured by Richard de Tweng
and Richard Pa of Scarborough. The latter appears and makes his
claim as a burgess of Scarborough. When his claim is allowed he pays
a fine of 13s 4d to be let off offering the oath. Sureties, Henry de
Ruston and Robert Hamond.

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Presentatum .... quod Johannes Hamund de Scardeburgh et alii
fuerunt consueti malefactores de venacione domini Regis; qui predictus
Johannes venit coram Justiciariis et optulit se acquietare per [321b]
sacramentum suum et triginta et sex hominum quia non inventus fuit
cum manuopere per viridarios et forestarios sicut continetur in carta
predicta ; ideo consideratum est quod se acquietet modo predicto ; qui
venit et se acquietavit ut predictum est ; ideo ipse inde quietus.

Presentatum .... quod Johannes de Lymbergh fuit receptator
Rogeri de Comergesheved et aliorum malefactorum de venacione cum
malefactis suis ; qui venit coram Justiciariis et optulit se acquietare per
sacramentum triginta et sex hominum ut supra eo quod non fuit inventus
etc., secundum tenorem cartarum predictarum etc., et concessum est ei
quod acquietet se modo predicto. Postea venit et fecit finem pro Sacra-
mento relaxando pro xxs per plegium Henrici de Roston et Roberti Pa.
Ideo quietus pro fine predicto de sacramento et transgressione predictis,

Presentatum .... quod Thomas le Salter de Scardeburgh et
Rogerus Farman de eadem fuerunt consueti malefactores de venacione
et receptatores. Qui venerunt coram Justiciariis et se optulerunt
acquietare quilibet per triginta et sex homines, quia non fuerunt
inventi cum manuopere etc., et concessum est eis quod se acquietent
modo predicto. Postea venit Thomas et finem fecit pro j marca per
plegium Johannis Salter et Willelmi Salter, et Rogerus pro dimidia
marca per plegium Simonis Gell de Scardeburgh et Johannis Upsete
de eadem pro sacramento relaxando. Ideo ipsi quieti pro finibus
predictis de sacramento et transgressione predictis.

John Hamond of Scarborough and others were confirmed poachers.
The first-named appears and offers to acquit himself by the oath of
thirty-six men. He is permitted to do so, and does acquit himself in
this manner.

John de Lymburgh harboured Roger de Comergeshead and other
poachers. He appears and offers to acquit himself by the oath of
thirty-six men, and is permitted to do so. Afterwards he compounds
for a fine of jQx. Sureties, Henry de Ruston and Robert Pa.

Thomas the Salter of Scarborough and Roger Foreman* of the same
place are confirmed poachers and harbourers of poachers. They
both claim the usual right and their claims are allowed. After-
wards they compound, Thomas for 13s 4d; sureties, John Salter and
William Salter ; Roger for 6s 8d ; sureties, Simon Gell and John Upset,
both of Scarborough.

* It has been suggested to me by my friend Mr. William Brown that Foreman is
the Yorkshire equivalent of prepositus. At Vol. II., N.S., pp. 47 and 48, we do
find the name Reeve.

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Presentatum .... quod Rogerus de Kitelwell et Johannes
Hamond de Scardeburgh fuerunt in foresta .super Elhale et bersaverunt
unam bissam anno predicto. Qui venerunt et optulerunt se acquietare
ut supra, ideo concessum est ut supra; qui predictus Rogerus venit
et acquietavit se per xxxvj ut supra, ideo quietus etc., et predictus
Johannes fecit finem pro dimidia marca pro Sacramento relaxando ;
ideo ipse quietus de sacramento et transgressione predictis per plegium
Johannis de Horneby de Scardeburgh et Johannis de Neuton de
eadem.

Presentatum .... quod Adam Ughtred de Scardeburgh et
Stephanus Trenchemere de eadem fuerunt receptatores malefactorum
de venacione, qui venerunt coram Justiciariis et optulerunt se acquie-
tare ut supra ; qui predictus Adam venit et finem fecit pro j marca
per plegium Thome Salter de Scardeburgh et Willelmi filii Johannis
de Everley ; Stephanus per plegium Johannis filii Benedicti et
Willelmi de Hany de Scardeburgh.

Et quia predicti viridarii nichil responderunt de transgressionibus
venacionis factis in foresta de anno regni Regis Henrici xlviij, xlix
et 1,* ideo committuntur prisone et educti de prisona venerunt et
fecerunt finem, scilicet Adam filius Radulphi pro xxs, et Galfridus
filius Bartholomei pro xls ; et quilibet eorum invenit manucaptores ut
patet etc.

Unde petunt iidem Ballivi et Communitas quod Justiciarii predicti
juxta allocacionem predictam eis alias factam veniant apud Scarde-

Roger de Kettlewell and John Hamond, of Scarborough, hunted a
hind in the forest above Ebhall. They appear and offer to acquit
themselves. Roger acquits by the oath of thirty-six, and John com-
pounds for a fine of 6s 8d. Sureties, John de Hornby and John
de Newton, both of Scarborough.

Adam Ughtred and Stephen Trenchemere, both of Scarborough,
are harbourers of poachers. They appear and offer to acquit them-
selves as above. Adam compounds for a fine of 13s 4d ; sureties,
Thomas Salter of Scarborough, and William son of John de Everley.
Stephen's sureties are John son of Benet, and William de Hany, of
Scarborough.

As the verderers did not return any offences of venison during the
years 1263, 1264 and 1265 they are sentenced to imprisonment and
released, Adam son of Ralph on payment of a fine of £1, and Geoffrey
son of Bartholomew of £,2. They find sureties.

This being a record that their claim was allowed the bailiffs and

* i.e., Until the forest passed out of the King's hands by virtue of the grant to
Edmund Crouchback.

1 84 DUCHY OF LANCASTER RECORDS.

burgh ad omnia placita foreste et omnes querelas foreste ipsos
tangencia placitanda et terminanda, et si aliquis burgensium predic-
torum rettati, indictati seu attachiati fuerint pro venacione vel alia
transgressione [* foreste, quod liceat eis se defendere de transgres-
sionibus] illis per sacramentum xxxvj hominum coram quibuscumque
Justiciariis de foresta, nisi per viridarios aut forestarios inventi fuerint
cum manuopere prout superius clamant. Et quia inspecto recordo pre-
dicto compertum est quod burgenses predicti admissi fuerunt ad [322]
se defendendos pro transgressione venacionis per sacramentum xxxvj
hominum coram Justiciariis de foresta prout superius clamant, ideo
quoad hoc et residuum clamiorum suorum remaneant ad presens per
defectum die astematisf habeant inde libertatem. Et super hoc
venerunt Willelmus filius Rogeri Carpentarii senioris, Johannes filius
Rogeri atte Crosse, Willelmus filius Alani Carter et Reginaldus Lygard
de Scardeburgh asserentes esse burgenses ejusdem ville de Scardeburgh,
de quibus in instanti itinere isto presentatum est et convictum per
forestarios et viridarios quod iidem Willelmus filius Rogeri Carpentarii
et alii J die Mercurii proximo ante festum Pentecostes anno regni
domini E. patris domini Regis nunc iiijto venerunt in foresta predicta
videlicet in Haia de Scalby cum arcubus et sagittis, ballistis et quinque
leporibus [? leporariis] quorum duo erant nigri et duo albi et unus
rubius et ceperunt ibidem duos damos et unum sourum cervi et venaci-
onem illam secum asportaverunt et voluntatem suam inde fecerunt et
statim fugierunt : et dicunt quod ipsi juxta libertatem ville predicte eis
allocatam in itinere isto parati sunt se defendere, videlicet quilibet

commonalty pray that the Justices may come to Scarborough to hear
and determine all pleas of the forests relating to the burgesses, and
that any of the burgesses accused, indicted or attached for poaching
or any other forest offence, may acquit themselves by the oath of
thirty-six men before any Justices of the Forest whatsoever, unless they
are caught in the act by the verderers or foresters. The latter claim is
allowed. Upon this William son of Roger Carpenter [? Carter] the
elder, John son of Roger atte Crosse, William son of Alan Carter, and
Reginald Lygard of Scarborough, assert that they are burgesses of
Scarborough. They had been presented and convicted in the
present Eyre by the foresters and verderers of having on Wednesday,

* The words between square brackets occur in the Exchequer but not in the
Duchy Coucher.

t This and the preceding word appear in the text of the Exchequer Coucher, but
not of the Duchy Coucher, between inverted commas. Possibly the scribe of the
former felt himself some doubt as to the correctness of his transcript.

$ See "Vol. II., N.S., p. 105. It will be noticed that the indictments are not
identical.

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eorum se xxxvj manu horainum et petunt se ad hoc admitti. Et
quia ministri istius foreste testantur quod idem Willelmus filius Rogeri
et alii sunt burgenses ville predicte, nee est compertum quod capti
fuerunt cum manuopere per* viridarios et forestarios, ideo iidem
Willelmus filius Rogeri et alii admittuntur ad se defendendos in forma
predicta, videlicet quilibet eorum se xxxvj manu hominum etc. Postea
venit predictus Willelmus filius Rogeri et finem fecit pro sacramento
relaxando per j marcam et admittitur per plegium Willelmi Warde et
Thome Bret, et predictus Johannes filius Rogeri similiter finem fecit
pro sacramento relaxando per j marcam et admittitur per plegium pre-
dictum, et predictus Willelmus filius Alani le Carter similiter finem fecit
pro sacramento relaxando pro xld per plegium predictum, et predictus
Reginaldus similiter fecit finem per dimidiam marcam per plegium
predictum.

26 May, 131 1, taken two bucks and a sore in Scalby Hay, with bows,
arrows, crossbows and five greyhounds, of which two were black, two
white, and one red. They ask to be permitted to exercise their right
of acquitting themselves by the oath of thirty-six. Permission is
granted ; afterwards they appear and pray to be allowed to compound ;
William son of Roger and John son of Roger compound for 13s 4d,
William son of Alan for 3s 4d, and Reginald for 6s 8d. Sureties for
each, William Ward and Thomas Bret.

* In the Exchequer Coucher the order is inverted. A B put over the words.

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APPENDIX.

CORAM REGE ROLLS.

Coram Rege. Trin. 16 Ed. III. r. 87.

Dominus Rex mandavit dilectis et fidelibus suis Willelmo Scot et
sociis suis Justiciariis ad placita coram Rege tenenda assignatis breve
suum clausum in hec verba. — Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie et
Francie et Dominus Hibernie dilectis et fidelibus suis Willelmo Scot
et sociis suis Justiciariis ad placita coram nobis tenenda assignatis
salutem. Cum per finem in Curia nostra coram dilectis et fidelibus
nostris Willelmo de Herle et sociis suis Justiciariis nostris de Banco
anno regni nostri Anglie septimo, inter Johannem Moryn de Brompton
et Dionisiam uxorem ejus querentes et Johannem de Wykham et
Johannem de Snaynton capellanum deforciantes, de uno mesuagio et
decern et octo toftis, triginta et quatuor bovatis et quinquaginta acris
terre, quindecim acris prati et triginta solidatis redditus cum perti-
nenciis in Brompton, Salden et Snaynton levatum, iidem Johannes

Trinity, 1342.
A writ dated at the Tower of London, 8 Feb., 1342, was directed to
William Scott and the other Justices of the King's Bench, to the follow-
ing effect. It recited a fine levied in the year 1333 in the Common
Bench, before William de Herle and other Justices, between Sir John
Moryn, of Brompton, and Denise, his wife, plaintiffs, and John de
Wykeham and John de Snainton, chaplain, defendants,* of one mes-
suage, eighteen tofts, thirty-four oxgangs, fifty acres of arable, fifteen
acres of meadow and thirty shillings rent,! in Brompton, Sawdon and
Snainton, by which Sir John and his wife acknowledged that they
had granted the tenements to John de Wykeham and John

* This gives a good instance of how the ordinary family settlement was drawn up
and the estates entailed in the days before the Statute of Uses.

t This exceeds the total of three carucates, which at Vol. II., N.S., p. 264, Sir
John Moryn was said to hold in Snainton, Brompton and Humberton.

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Moryn et Dionisia recognovissent tenementa predicta cum pertinenciis
esse jus ipsius Johannis de Wikhara, ut ilia que iidem Johannes de
Wikham et Johannes de Snaynton habebant de dono predictorum
Johannis Moryn et Dionisie, dictique Johannes de Wikham et Johannes
de Snainton obsequenter concessissent predictis Johanni Moryn et
Dionisie predicta tenementa cum pertinenciis et ilia eis reddidissent in
eadem Curia habenda et tenenda eisdem Johanni Moryn et Dionisie
et heredibus ipsius Johannis de corpore suo procreatis de capitalibus
dominis feodi illius per servicia que ad predicta tenementa pertinent
imperpetuum, prout per transcriptum pedis finis predicti quod coram
nobis in Cancellaria nostra venire fecimus plenius apparet, ac jam ex
parte dilecti et fidelis nostri Henrici Comitis Lancastrie, domini
manerii de Pykeryng quod est de antiquo dominico corone nostre ut
dicitur, nobis sit supplicatum ut cum sexdecim tofta, duodecim bovate
et quadraginta acre terre, sex acre prati et triginta solidate redditus de
predictis tenementis in dicto fine contends sint parcella manerii supra-
dicti et a tempore cujus contrarii memoria non existit usque ad
levacionem finis illius fuerint et in Curia manerii illius secundum
consuetudinem ejusdem placitabilia, ac eadem sexdecim tofta, duodecim
bovate et quadraginta acre terre, sex acre prati et triginta solidate
redditus jam per finem predictum ad communem legem ponantur in
ipsius Comitis grave dampnum ac exheredacionis sue periculum
manifestum, velimus pro ipso Comite super premissis de remedio
congruo providere, nos quod justum fuerit fieri volentes in hac parte,
mittimus vobis sub pede sigilli nostri transcriptum supradictum, man-
dates quod viso transcripto illo et vocatis coram vobis quos fore
videritis evocandos auditisque partium hinc et inde racionibus ulterius
super adnullacionem finis predicti quoad predicta sexdecim tofta,

de Snainton, in consideration for which grant the latter granted
the tenements to Sir John and his wife, Denise, and the heirs
of the body of Sir John, to hold of the chief lords of the fee
by the services which belonged to the tenements. The transcript
of the foot of the fine had been sent into the King's Chancery.
Afterwards Henry, Earl of Lancaster, lord of the manor of
Pickering, which is said to be of ancient demesne, alleged that
sixteen tofts, twelve oxgangs, forty acres of arable, six acres of meadow,
and thirty shillings rent out of the said tenements were parcel of the
said manor, and from time immemorial up to the date of the levying
of the fine were impleadable in the Manor Court, according to the
custom of the manor, and that he had suffered damage by the levying
of the fine of such hereditaments at common law. The King, there-
fore, in his desire to do justice, sent the transcript to the Justices of

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duodecim bovatas et quadraginta acras terre, sex acras prati et triginta
solidatas redditus fieri faciatis quod de jure et secundum legem et
consuetudinem regni nostri Anglie fore videritis faciendum. Teste
me ipso apud Turrim London, viij die Febr. anno regni nostri Anglie
sexto decimo, regni vero nostro Francie tercio.

Transcriptum pedis finis predicti sequitur in hec verba. Hec est
finalis concordia facta in Curia domini Regis apud Eboracum in
Crastino Sancti Martini anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii a conquestu
septimo coram Willelmo de Herle, Johanne de Stonore, Johanne de
Cantabrigge, Johanne de Inge, Johanne de Shardelowe, Ricardo de
Aldeburgh et Willelmo de Shareshull Justiciariis ; et postea a die
Pascbe in tres septimanas anno regni ejusdem Regis Edwardi
octavo ibidem concessa et recordata coram prefatis Willelmo de Herle,
Johanne, Johanne, Johanne, Johanne et Ricardo Justiciariis et aliis
domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus, inter Johannem
Moryn de Brompton et Dionisiam uxorem ejus querentes et Johannem
de Wikham et Johannem de Snaynton Capellanum deforciantes de
uno mesuagio, decern et octo toftis, triginta et quatuor bovatis et
quinquaginta acris terre, quindecim acris prati et triginta solidatis
redditus cum pertinenciis in Brompton, Salden et Snaynton, unde
placitum convencionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem Curia,
scilicit quod predicti Johannes Moryn et Dionisia recognoverunt pre-
dicta tenementa cum pertinenciis esse jus ipsius Johannis de Wykham
ut ilia que iidem Johannes et Johannes de Snaynton habent de dono
predictorum Johannis Moryn et Dionisie, et pro hac recognicione, fine
et concordia iidem Johannes de Wikham et Johannes de Snaynton
concesserunt predictis Johanni Moryn et Dionisie predicta tenementa
cum pertinenciis et ilia eis reddiderunt in eadem Curia, habenda et
tenenda eisdem Johanni Moryn et Dionisie et heredibus ipsius
Johannis de corpore suo procreatis de capitalibus dominis feodi illius

the Common Bench, and directed them to inspect it, and having called
before them such as could give material evidence, and heard the argu-
ments both sides as to quashing the fine, to give judgment according
to the law and custom of the realm.

The transcript of the foot of the fine stated that it was levied at
York on the morrow of Martinmas, 1333, before William de Herle, John
de Stonor, John de Cambridge, John de Inge, John de Shardelowe,
Richard de Aldborough, and William de Shareshull, Justices, and after-
wards recorded in the Easter Term following, before the same Justices.
It was to the effect already stated, except that the grant by John de
Wykeham and John de Snainton was to Sir John and his wife, Denise,
and the heirs of the body of Sir John, and in default of such

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per servicia que ad predicta tenementa pertinent imperpetuum. Et
si contingat quod idem Johannis Moryn obierit sine herede de corpore
suo procreato, tunc post decessum ipsorum Johannis et Dionisie pre-
dicta tenementa cum pertinenciis integre remanebunt Johanni Alio*
ejusdem Johannis Moryn et heredibus de corpore suo procreatis
tenenda de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia que ad
predicta tenementa pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod
idem Johannes Alius Johannis obierit sine herede de corpore suo pro-
creato tunc post decessum ipsius Johannis predicta tenementa cum
pertinenciis integre remanebunt Ricardo fratri ejusdem Johannis filii
Johannis et heredibus de corpore suo procreatis tenenda de capitali-
bus dominis feodi illius per servicia que ad predicta tenementa
pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod idem Ricardus obierit
sine herede de corpore suo procreato tunc post decessum ipsius
Ricardii predicta tenementa cum pertinenciis integre remanebunt
Agneti de Kelstern et heredibus masculis de corpore suo procreatis
tenenda de capitalibus dominis feodi illius per servicia que ad
predicta tenementa pertinent imperpetuum. Et si contingat
quod eadem Agnes obierit sine herede masculo de corpore
suo procreato tunc post decessum ipsius Agnetis predicta tene-
menta cum pertinenciis integre remanebunt Johanni de Malton et
heredibus masculis de corpore suo procreatis tenenda de capitalibus
dominis feodi illius per servicia que ad predicta tenementa pertinent
imperpetuum. Et si contingat quod idem Johannes de Malton obierit
sine herede masculo de corpore suo procreato tunc post decessum
ipsius Johannis predicta tenementa cum pertinenciis integre remane-
bunt rectis heredibus predicti Johannis Moryn tenenda de capitalibus
dominis feodi illius per servicia que ad predicta tenementa pertinent
imperpetuum.

Postea ad sectam predicti Henrici Comitis Lancastrie asserentis

issue to John, son of Sir John Moryn and the heirs of his
body, and in default of such issue to his brother Richard
and the heirs of his body, and in default of such issue to
Agnes Kelstern and the heirs male of her body, and in default
of such issue to John de Malton and the heirs male of his body, and
in default of such issue to the right heirs of Sir John Moryn, the tene-
ments in every case to be held of the chief lords of the fee by the
services which belong to them. Afterwards the suit of Henry Earl of

* I do not understand this remainder. If Sir John's issue should fail, it would
naturally follow that his son's issue must have failed. Perhaps it is a case of
unnecessary words being added ex uberiori cautela, and as Taltarum's case had not
then been decided the distinction between tenant in tail and a tenant for life may not
have been important.

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quod ipse est dominus manerii de Pykeryng quod est de antiquo
dominico corone regni Regum Anglie, et quod sexdecim tofte,
duodecim bovate et quadraginta acre terre, sex acre prati et triginta
solidate redditus de predictis tenementis in predicto fine contentis
tenentur de eo ut de manerio predicto, et a tempore cujus contrarii
memoria non existit de ipso et antecessoribus suis ut de manerio illo
tenebantur, et in Curia manerii illius secundum consuetudinem ejusdem
fuerunt placitabilia, et quod finis ille inde in ipsius Comitis grave
dampnum et exheredacionis sue periculum manifestum extitit levatus,
super quo idem Comes domino Regi supplicavit sibi per ipsum Regem
de remedio provideri, dominus Rex quod justum fuerit fieri volens in
hac parte misit coram dilectis et fidelibus suis Willelmo Scot et sociis
Justiciariis ad placita coram Rege tenenda assignatis transcriptum
pedis finis predicti, mandans quod viso transcripto illo et vocatis coram
Rege quos fore viderint evocandos auditisque hinc et inde partium
racionibus, ulterius super adnullacionem finis predicti quoad predicta
sexdecim tofta, duodecim bovatas et quadraginta acras terre, sex acras
prati et triginta solidatas redditus fieri faceret Rex quod de jure et
secundum legem et consuetudinem regni Regis Anglie esset faciendum.
Et quia partibus predictis in hac parte Rex volens fieri quod est
justum precepit vicecomiti Eboracensi quod per probos etc scire
faceret tarn prefato Johanni Moryn de Brompton et Dionisie quam
Johanni de Wykham et Johanni de Snaynton quod essent coram
domino Rege ad hunc diem scilicet a die Sancte Trinitatis in xv dies
ubicumque etc, ad ostendendum si quid pro se haberent vel dicere
scirent quare predictus finis quoad predicta sexdecim tofta, duodecim
bovatas et quadraginta acras terre, sex acras prati et triginta solidatas
redditus sic in prejudicium dominii predicti Comitis, ut dicitur, levatus
adnullari et eadem tenementa in statum pristinum reponi non debeant
si etc j et ulterius etc. Et modo coram domino Rege venit predictus
Henricus Comes Lancastrie per Robertum de Cliffton attornatum
suum ; et vicecomes retornavit quod fecit retornum brevis Regis inde
Hugoni de Nevill ballivo libertatis de Pykeryng, cui execucio ejusdem

Lancaster upon the claim already set out proceeded, and the King
directed a writ of scire facias to the Sheriff of Yorkshire to summon
Sir John Moryn, Denise, his wife, John de Wykeham, and John de
Snainton to appear in the Court of King's Bench, in Trinity Term
following, to show cause against the quashing of the fine so far as it
related to the tenements said to be held of the Earl. The Earl
appeared this term by his attorney, Robert de Clifton, and the Sheriff
returned that Hugh de Nevill, bailiff, of Pickering, whose duty it was
to execute the writ within that liberty, replied that Sir John Moryn,

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brevis restat facienda, qui sibi respondit quod Johannes Moryn de
Broropton et Dionisia uxor ejus et Johannes de Wykham mortui sunt,
et quod scire fecit Johanni de Snaynton capellano quod esset coram
Rege ad prefatum terminum etc, ad faciendum quod breve requirit etc,
per Nicholaum Haldan et Ricardum de Dalby, qui quidem Johannes
per premunicionem ei inde factam per Adam Round attornatum suum
venit. Et quia videtur Curie quod expediens est quod tenentes de
predictis sexdecim toftis, duodecim bovatis et quadraginta acris terre,
sex acris prati et triginta solidatis redditus de predictis tenementis in
dicto fine contentis, ac eciam predicti Ricardus, Johannes filius pre-
dicti Johannis Moryn, Agnes, Johannes de Malton quibus eadem
tenementa per finem predictum talliata fuerunt ut predictum est,
premuniantur antequam ad adnullacionem finis predicti ut predictum
est procedatur. Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod per probos etc,
scire faciat Ricardo de Dalby et Johanni filio Johannis de Malton,
tenentibus predictorum sexdecim toftorum, duodecim bovatarum et
quadraginta acrarum terre, sex acrarum prati et triginta solidatarum
redditus de tenementis predictis, ac eciam prefato Johanni filio
Johannis Moryn, Ricardo, Agneti et Johanni de Malton quod sint
coram domino Rege a die Sancti Michaelis in xv dies ubicumque etc
ad ostendendum si quid pro se habeant vel dicere sciant quare pre-
dictus finis quoad predicta sexdecim tofta, duodecim bovatas et
quadraginta acras terre, sex acras prati et triginta solidatas redditus
sic in prejudicium dominii predicti Comitis ut dicitur levatus adnullari
et eadem tenementa in statum pristinum reponi non debeant si etc, et
ulterius etc. Idem dies datus est predictis Comiti et Johanni de
Snaynton etc. Ad quern diem coram domino Rege venit predictus
Comes per predictum attornatum suum, et predictus Johannes de
Snaynton per predictum attornatum suum similiter venit ; et vicecomes
retornavit quod precepit Hugoni de Neville ballivo libertatis de
Pykeryng, qui sibi respondit quod scire fecit prefato Ricardo de
Dalby et Johanni filio Johannis de Malton tenentibus predictorum
sexdecim toftorum, duodecim bovatarum et quadraginta acrarum terre,

Denise, his wife, and John de Wykeham were all dead, but that he had
summoned John de Snainton to show cause. The summons had been
served by Nicholas Haldane and Richard de Dalby, and John de
Snainton appeared by Adam Round, his attorney. The Court, how-
ever, thought fit to direct that the other tenants of the tenements in
question, namely, Richard de Dalby and John, son of John de Malton,
and also the persons on whom the tenements had been entailed, John,
the son of Sir John Moryn and Richard, his brother, Agnes Kelstern
and John de Malton should be summoned to show cause, in Michael-

192 APPENDIX.

sex acrarum prati et triginta solidatarum redditus de tenementis
predictis, ac eciam prefatis Johanni filio predicti Johannis Moryn,
Ricardo et Agneti et Johanni de Malton quod essent coram Rege
etc, ad faciendum quod breve Regis requirit etc, per Nicholaum
Haldan et Thomam le Forester, qui quidem Ricardus de Dalby et
Johannes Alius Johannis de Malton, Johannes Alius predicti Johannis
Moryn, Ricardus, Agnes et Johannes de Malton quarto die placiti
solempnitur vocati non veniunt ; et super hoc dominus Rex misit hie
quoddam breve domini Regis clausum in hec verba. Edwardus Dei
gracia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie dilectis et
fidelibus suis Willelmo Scot et sociis suis Justiciariis ad placita coram
nobis tenenda assignatis salutem. Quandam certificacionem coram
nobis in Cancellaria nostra per Thesaurarium et Camerarios nostros
de mandato nostro missam manerium de Pykeryng tangentem vobis
mittimus presentibus inclusam, ut visa certificacione ilia in quodam
negotio pendente coram nobis per breve nostrum ad prosecucionem
dilecti consanguinei et fidelis nostri Henrici Comitis Lancastrie
[? domini] manerii predicti quod est de antiquo dominico corone regni
nostri Anglie ut dicitur, super adnullacione cujusdam finis levati in
Curia nostra anno regni nostri Anglie septimo coram tunc Justiciariis
nostris de Banco per breve nostrum [? inter] Johannem Moryn de
Brompton et Dionisiam uxorem querentes et Johannem de Wykham
et Johannem de Snaynton deforciantes de uno mesuagio, decern et
octo toftis, triginta et quatuor bovatis et quinquaginta acris terre, quin-
decim acris prati et triginta solidatis redditus cum pertinenciis in
Brompton, Salden et Snaynton, de quibus quidem tenementis sex-
decim tofta, duodecim bovate et quadraginta acre terre, sex acre prati
et triginta solidate redditus tenentur de prefato Comite ut de manerio
predicto et in Curia manerii illius secundum consuetudinem ejusdem
et non ad communem legem sunt placitabilia, sicut idem Comes dicit,
consultius facere valeatis quod de jure et secundum legem regni nostri

mas Term, against the quashing of the fine. The Earl and John de
Snainton both appeared in this term by their respective attornies, and
the Sheriff returned that Hugh de Nevill had caused the summonses
to show cause to be served by Nicholas Haldan and Thomas the
Forester upon the several tenants and the persons in the entail, but
none of them appeared on the fourth day. A writ, tested by
Edward, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, at Kennington, 16
October, 1342, directed William Scott and the other Justices of Com-
mon Pleas to inspect a certificate relating to the manor of Pickering,
sent into the King's Chancery by the Treasurer and Chamberlains, and
to consider its effect on the suit then pending before them by the Earl

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 193

predicti in hujusmodi casu fuerit faciendum. Teste Edwardo Duce
Cornubie et Comite Cestrie, filio nostro carissimo, Custode Anglie
apud Kenyngton xvj die Octobris anno regni nostri Anglie sextodecimo,
regni vero Francie tercio.

Breve Thesaurario et Camerariis inde directum tale est.

Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie
Thesaurio et Camerariis suis salutem. Volentes quibusdam certis de
causis certiorari utrum manerium de Pykeryng cum pertinenciis in
Comitatu Eboracensi sit de antiquo dominico corone nostre Anglie
necne, vobis mandamus quod scrutato libro nostro vocato Domesdai
nos in Cancellaria nostra de eo quod inde inveniri contigerit reddatis
sub sigillo Scaccarii predicti distincte et aperte sine dilacione certiores,
remittentes nobis ibidem hoc breve. Teste Edwardo Duce Cornubie et
Comite Cestrie, filio nostro carissimo, Custode Anglie apud Kenyngton
xiiij die Octobris anno regni nostri Anglie sextodecimo, regni vero
Francie tercio.

Certificacio inde talis est.

In libro de Domesdai in Comitatu Eboracensi sub titulo terre Regis
continetur sic. — In Pickeringa sunt ad geldum xxxvij carucate terre
quas possunt arare xx caruce. Has tenuit Morcar pro uno manerio
cum bereuuicis suis, Bartune, Neuuetone, Blandeby, et Estorp, modo
habet Rex. Ibi est una caruca et xx villani cum vj carucis. Pratum
dimidium leuce longum et tantum latum. Omnis vero silva que
pertinet ad manerium habet xvj leucarum longitudinem et tantarum
latitudinem. Hoc manerium valuit tempore Regis Edwardi quater

of Lancaster to quash the fine which, as he alleged, concerned lands
held in ancient demesne, and only impleadable in the Court of
the manor of Pickering. Another writ tested as above but dated
14 October, 1342, directed the Treasurer and Chamberlains to examine
Domesday Book, and send a certificate of what appears there into the
King's Chancery, so that it can be ascertained whether the Manor of
Pickering is of ancient demesne or no.

The certificate is as follows. In Domesday Book under the head of
the King's Land in Yorkshire, we find — In Pickering, there are to be
taxed thirty-seven carucates of land which twenty ploughs may till.
These Morcar held for one manor with its berewicks Barton, Newton,
Blandsby, and Easthorp. It is now the King's. There is therein one
plough and twenty villans with six ploughs. Meadow half a mile*

* It will be noticed at Vol. I., N.S., p. xviii, I copied the corresponding
passage from Bawden's Domesday. It is usual to take the lenca as a mile and a half,
but this would make the extent of the forest too great. Sixteen miles is above the
mark.

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194 APPENDIX.

xx11 et viij lib; modo xx sol. et iiij den. Ad hoc manerium pertinet
soka harum terrarum, Brunton, Odulfesmare, Edbrigtune, Alvestune,
Wiltune, Farmanesby, Rozebi, Shinetorp,* Chilvesmares, Aschilesmares,
Maxudesmares, Snechintune, Chigogemers, Elreburne, Torentune,
Leuecen, Middelton, Bartune. Inter totum sunt ad geldum 1. carucate
quas possint arare xxvij caruce. Non sunt modo nisi x villani habentes
ij carucas. Cetera vasta. Sunt tantum prati acre xxt!. Inter totum
xvj leucas longum et iiij latum.

Et super hoc predictus Comes dicit ut prius quod ipse est dominus
predicti manerii de Pykeryng et quod predicta sexdecim tofta, duodecim
bovate, quadraginta acre terre, sex acre prati et triginta solidati redditus
de tenementis predictis in predictis villis de Brompton, Salden et
Snaynton unde predictus finis se levavit, tenentur de eo ut de manerio
predicto et per longum tempus de ipso et successoribus [? predecesso-
ribus] suis ut de manerio illo tenebantur, et in Curia manerii illius
secundum consuetudinem ejusdem fuerunt placitabilia, et dicit quod
Salden est hamelettum de Brompton et ex quo per predictum librum
de Domesday sit compertum quod Brompton et Pykeryng et Snaynton
sunt de antiquo dominico corone Anglie, petit quod predictus finis de
predictis sexdecim toftis, duodecim bovatis et quadraginta acris terre,
sex acris prati et triginta solidatis redditus sic in prejudicium dominii
sui levatus adnulletur et quod eadem tenementa in statum pristinum
reponantur etc.

long and as much broad. The forest belonging to the manor extends
for sixteen miles either way. In the time of King Edward it was
worth ;£88 ; now only £1 os. 4d. To this manor belongs the soke of
these lands Brompton, Edusmarsh [?], Ebberston, Allerslon, Wilton,
Farmandby, Roxby, Kingthorpe, other manors in the marishes.f
Snainton, KekkeMarish [?], Ellerburn, Thornton, Levisham, Middleton,
and Barton. In all fifty carucates are to be taxed which twenty-seven
ploughs can till. There are only ten villans with two ploughs, the rest
is waste, and only twenty acres of meadow. In all sixteen miles long
and four broad.

Upon this the Earl pleads that he is Lord of the manor of Pickering,
and that sixteen tofts, twelve oxgangs, forty acres of arable, six acres
of meadow, and thirty shillings rent of the tenements in Brompton,
Sawdon and Snainton, as to which the fine was levied, are and from old
have been held of him and his predecessors, and are impleadable in

* Chinetorp in facsimile copy.

+ We have to account somehow for part of the district between Kirkby Misperton
and Barton, which seems to have been in the Soke of Pickering. It is nearly all low-
lying land.

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Et predictus Johannes dicit quod predictus finis quoad predicta
sexdecim tofta, duodecim bovatas, quadraginta acras terre, sex acras
prati et triginta solidatos redditus adnullari non debet, quia dicit quod
in predictis villis de Brompton, Salden et Snaynton in dicto fine nomi-
natis sunt tria feoda, videlicet tenura de manerio de Pykeryng que est
de antiquo dominico corone Anglie et secundum consuetudinem
manerii illius placitabilia, feodum de Percy, feodum de Aton que sunt
ad geldum et placitabilia ad communem legem et a toto tempore
exstiterunt. Et dicit quod predicta sexdecim tofta, duodecim mesuagia
[? bovate] et quadraginta acre terre, sex acre prati et triginta solidati
redditus sunt de predicto feodo de Aton et sunt placitabilia ad com-
munem legem et non de antiquo dominico prout predictus Comes
supponit, et hoc paratus est verificare etc.

Et predictus Comes dicit ut prius quod Salden est hamelettum de
Brompton et quod eadem sexdecim tofta, duodecim bovate et quadra-
ginta acre terre, sex acre prati et triginta solidati redditus sunt de
antiquo dominico et tenentur de dicto manerio de Pykeryng et placita-
bilia secundum consuetudinem dicti manerii, et non de feodo de Aton
sicut predictus Johannes dicit, et de hoc ponit se super patriam etc,
et predictus Johannes de Snaynton similiter.

Ideo veniat inde Jurata coram domino Rege a die Sancti Hillarii
in xv dies ubicumque etc, et qui non etc, quia tarn etc. Postea con-
tinuato inde processu inter partes predictas per juratam positam in
respectu usque a die Sancti Hillarii in xv dies anno regni domini

the Manor Court according to the custom of the Manor. Sawdon,
moreover, is a hamlet of Brompton, and from Domesday Book it
appears that Brompton, Pickering, and Snainton are of ancient
demesne. He prays that the fine may be quashed so far as it relates
to the tenements in question, and that they may be restored to their
former condition. John de Snainton denies that the fine should be
quashed to this extent, for he says that in the townships of Brompton,
Sawdon, and Snainton there are three fees, namely, that held of
Pickering, which he admits is ancient demesne and only impleadable
according to the custom of the Manor, and the fees of Percy and
Ayton, which are geldable* and impleadable at common law, and
always have been. He is ready to prove that the tenements in
question are held of the fee of Ayton, and are impleadable at common
law, and are not of ancient demesne ; upon this the Earl joins
issue and a jury is summoned. In the Hillary Term of 1343

* At this date land outside a franchise was spoken of as geldable in distinction
to land within a franchise, possibly because in many of the latter cases the tollage
belonged to the Lord of the franchise. See post, p. 204.

O 2

I96 APPENDIX.

Regis nunc decimo septimo. Ad quern diem veniunt tam predictus
Comes quam predictus Johannes per attornatos suos predictos, et
predicta jurata posita fuit in respectu usque a die Pasche in tres
septimanas ubicumque etc, nisi W. Scot et W. Basset vel unus eorum
prius die Veneris in secunda septimana Quadragesime apud Ebora-
cum venerint vel venerit etc. Ad quas quidem tres septimanas Pasche
veniunt tam predictus Comes quam predictus Johannes per attornatos
suos predictos, et predicti W. Scot et W. Basset tulerunt coram Rege
recordum et processum veredicti jurate predicte in hec verba. Postea
coram prefatis Willelmo Scot et Willelmo Basset die et loco infra con-
tends venerunt partes predicte per attornatos suos, et similiter Juratores
qui de consensu parcium electi dicunt super sacramentum suum quod
duodecim tofta de predictis sexdecim toftis sunt de antiquo dominico
corone Anglice et quod tenentur de Comite Lancastrie ut de manerio
suo de Pikeryng in Curia manerii illius secundum consuetudinem
ejusdem placitabilia et non ad communem legem, et dicunt quod
quatuor tofta residua de predictis sexdecim toftis sunt de feodo de
Aton et ad communem legem placitabilia, dicunt eciam quod predicte
duodecim bovate terre et sexdecim acre terre de predictis quadra-
ginta acris terre sunt similiter de antiquo dominico corone Anglice et
tenentur de predicto Comite ut de manerio predicto et in Curia manerii
illius placitabilia et non ad communem legem, et dicunt quod viginti
et quatuor acre terre residue de predictis quadraginta acris terre sunt
de predicto feodo de Aton et ad communem legem placitabilia, et
quoad predictas sex acras prati dicunt quod medietas unius acre prati
de eisdem sex acris prati est de antiquo dominico corone Anglice et
tenetur de prefato Comite in Curia manerii illius placitabilia et non ad
communem legem, et dicunt quod quinque acre et dimidia, residue de
predictis sex acris prati, sunt de predicto feodo de Aton ad legem
communem placitabilia, dicunt eciam quod predicte triginta solidate*

they both appear, and the trial is respited until the Easter Term for
the purpose of being tried at York Assizes before William Scot or
William Basset on Friday, 7th March, 1343. In the Easter Term the
verdict is recorded, namely, that twelve tofts, twelve oxgangs, sixteen
acres of arable, and half an acre of meadow are of ancient demesne
of the Crown, held of the Earl of Lancaster as of his manor of
Pickering, and impleadable by custom in the Court of that Manor and
not at common law ; and that the remaining four tofts, twenty-four
acres of arable, five and a half acres of meadow, and thirty shillings
rent are of the fee of Ayton, and impleadable at common law, The
jury say that the tenements in Brompton and Sawdon are of ancient
* This word continually, throughout the record, varies in gender.

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 197

redditus cum pertinenciis sunt de eodem feodo de Aton, ad com-
raunera legem placitabilia. Et dicunt quod omnia tenementa in
Brompton et Salden sunt de antiquo dominico corone Anglice, et quod
omnia tenementa in Snaynton* sunt ad communem legem placitabilia.
Ideo consideratum est quod predictus finis quoad predicta duo-
decim tofta, duodecim bovatas, sexdecim acras terre et medietatem
unius acre prati cum pertinenciis in Brumton et Salden levatus omnino
adnulletur, evacuatur et de cetero pro nullo habeatur, et quod pre-
dictus Johannes de Moryn et Dionisia uxor ejus et Johannes de
Wykham si superstites sint, et eciam predictus Johannes de Snaynton
capellanus pro decepcione Curie domini Regis in levacione predicti
finis facta capiantur etc.

Coram Rege, Mich. 17 Ed. III., m. 2.
Johannes filius Johannis Moryn venit hie in Curia die Martis
proximo post octabas Sancti Michaelis hoc anno et protulit quoddam
scriptum quod cognovit esse factum suum et peciit illud irrotulari ;
quod irrotulatur in hec verba. Omnibus hoc scriptum visuris vel
audituris Johannes filius Johannis Moryn salutem in Domino. Noveri
tis me remisisse, relaxasse et omnino de me et heredibus meis imper-
petuum quietum clamasse domino Willelmo de Aton militi, heredibus
et assignatis suis, totum jus et clamium quod habeo, habui vel aliquo
modo de cetero habere potero in septem bovatis terre cum toftis
adjacentibus cum omnibus suis pertinenciis in Brumpton in Pykering-

demesne, and that all the tenements in Snainton are impleadable at
common law.

Judgment is given that so far as relates to the tenements in
Brompton and Sawdon, the fine so levied is to be quashed, and process
is directed to issue against John Moryn, Denise his wife, and John de
Wykeham, if they are surviving, and against John de Snainton, chap-
lain, for having deceived the King's Court in the matter of the
levying of the fine.

Michaelmas, 1343.
John, son of John Moryn,f appears in Court on Tuesday, 7th
October, 1343, and prayed enrolment of a deed which he acknow-
ledged to be his. It was enrolled, and ran thus : To all who shall
see this deed or hear it read, John, son of John Moryn, sends greet.

* Possibly the jury declined to identify Snechintune with Snainton.

t This seems to throw a little light on the preceding. As heir to his father, John
had power to sell, but not as tenant in tail under the settlement, although no doubt
the form of the deed is that he does not sell but releases his interest whatever it is.

198 APPENDIX.

lith, Snaynton et Salden que quondam fuerunt domini Johannis
Moryn patris mei, ita quod nee ego dictus Johannes filius Johannis
Moryn nee heredes mei nee aliquis alius nomine nostro aliquid juris
vel clamium in predictis terris et tenementis cum suis pertinenciis de
cetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus imperpetuum ; et ego Johannes
filius Johannis et heredes mei omnia predictas terras et tenementa cum
suis pertinenciis prefato domino Willelmo, heredibus et assignatis suis
contra omnes homines warantizabimus et imperpetuum defendemus.
In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui
hiis testibus ; — dominis Radulpho de Hastings, Willelmo de Playce,
militibus, Johanne de Shirburn, Roberto de Whyern, Edmundo de
Hastings, Johanni de Pert et aliis. Datum apud Brompton die
Sabbati proximo post festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno
Domini milessimo trescentesimo quadragesimo tercio.

Coram Rege, Mich. 21 Ed. III., m. 88.
Dominus Rex mandavit Willelmo de Thorp . et sociis suis Justiciariis
breve suum clausum in hec verba. Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie
et Francie et Dominus Hibernie dilectis et fidelibus suis Willelmo de
Thorp et sociis suis Justiciariis ad placita coram nobis tenenda assig-
natis salutem. Recordum et processum nuper habita coram dilectis et
fidelibus nostris Ricardo de Wilughby et sociis suis tunc Justiciariis
itinerantibus ad placita foreste Henrici nuper* Comitis Lancastrie in
foresta de Pykeryng in comitatu Eboracensi de libertatibus per Robertum
filium Willelmi Wyerne et Thomam Thurnef in eadem foresta coram

ing. Know that I have released and quit-claimed to Sir William de
Ayton, Knight, his heirs and assigns, all such claim and right as I have
had, or can in any way have, to seven oxgangs of lands, with tofts
adjoining, in Brompton, in Pickering lith, Snainton, and Sawdon, which
formerly belonged to my father, Sir John Moryn. The deed contained
a clause of warranty and was witnessed at Brompton on Saturday
4th October, 1343, by Sir Ralph de Hastings, Sir William de Playce,
John de Shirebourn, Robert de Wyerne, Edmund de Hastings, John
de Pert, and others.

Michaelmas, 1347.

The King directed a close writ to William de Thorpe and his fellow

Justices of the King's Bench, together with the record of the liberties

claimed by Robert, son of William Wyerne, and Thomas Thurnef in

the Forest Eyre held at Pickering by Robert de Willoughby and other

* He died the preceding year.

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 1 99

eisdem Justiciariis clamatis et ibidem allocatis que coram nobis in Can-
cellana nostra certis de causis venire fecimus, vobis mittimus sub pede
sigilli nostri, mandantes ut hiis inspectis ulterius ad prosecucionem
Roberti de Scardeburgh et Thome Whyte duorum tenencium et corau-
nariorum ville de Ebriston infra forestam predictam existentis ut dicitur,
asserencium libertates per prefatos Robertum filium Willelmi et
Thomam Thurnef in eodem itinere clamatas et ibidem allocatas ad ex-
heredacionem eorundem Roberti de Scardeburgh et Thome Wh>te
ac alioruoi tenencium et comunariorum ejusdem ville existere, pro
adnullacione clamei et allocacionis predictorum fieri faciatis quod de
jure et secundum legem et consuetudinem regni nostri Anglie fuerit
faciendum. Teste Leonello filio nostro carissimo custode Anglie apud
Redyng tercio die Julii anno regni nostri Anglie vicesimo primo, regni
vero nostri Francie octavo.

Breve directum Thesaurario et Camerariis sequitur in hec verba. —
Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie
Thesaurario et Camerariis suis salutem. Volentes certis de causis
certiorari super recordo et processu habitis coram dilectis et fidelibus
nostris Ricardo de Wylughby et sociis suis nuper Justiciariis ad placita
foreste Henrici nuper comitis Lancastrie in foreste de Pykeryng in
comitatu Eboracensi de libertatibus per Robertum filium Willelmi
Wyerne et Thomam Thurnef in eadem foresta coram eisdem Justiciariis
clamatis et ibidem allocatis, vobis mandamus quod scrutatis rotulis
ejusdem Ricardi de itinere predicto qui sunt in Thesauraria nostra sub
custodia vestra ut dicitur, recordum et processum predicta nobis in
Cancellaria nostra sub sigillo Scaccarii nostri distincte et aperte sine
dilacione mittatis et hoc breve. Teste Leonello filio nostro carissimo
custode Anglie apud Reding xvj die Junii anno regni nostri Anglie
vicesimo primo, regni vero nostri Francie octavo.

[The record of the claim printed at p. 122 ante next follows.]

Justices, which had been sent into the King's Chancery. The Justices
were directed to examine the record, and then to proceed in accordance
with the law and custom of the kingdom with the suit by Robert de
Scarborough and Thomas White, two tenants and commoners of
Ebberston, a village said to be within the forest, who assert that the
liberties then claimed by Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef and
allowed, were in prejudice of their rights and those of the other
tenants and commoners of that township, and seek to have the
allowance of the liberties set aside. Tested at Reading by Lionel,*
then keeper of England, 3 July, 1347.

A writ, dated at Reading 16 June, 1347, had directed the
* Third son of Edward III., born 1338.

200 APPENDIX.

Postea in Curia domini Regis coram ipso Rege ad sectam Roberti de
Scardeburg et Thome Whyte duorum tenendum et comunariorum ville
de Ebreston infra forestam predictam existentis asserencium liber-
tates in bac parte per prefatos Robertum filium Willelmi et Thomam
Thurnef in eodem itinere clamatas et ibidem eisdem allocatas fore ad
exheredacionem eorundum Roberti de Scardeburg et Thome Whyte
ac aliorum tenencium et comunariorum ejusdem ville de Ebreston,
preceptum fuit vicecomiti Eboracensi quod per probos etc scire faceret
prefatis Roberto filio Willelmi et Thomam Thurnef quod essent coram
domino Rege ad hunc diem scilicet a die Sancti Michaelis in xv dies
ubicumque etc ad ostendendum si quid pro se haberent etc quare ad
adnullacionem clamei et allocacionis predictorum procedere non debeat,
si etc, et ulterius etc. Et modo coram domino Rege veniunt predicti
Robertus de Scardeburgh et Thomas Whyte in propriis personis suis,
et vicecomes retornavit quod scire fecit prefatis Roberto filio Willelmi
Wyerne et Thome Thurnyf quod essent coram Rege ad prefatum ter-
minum ad faciendum quod breve Regis requirit etc, per Johannem
filium Galfridi et Johannem Gotson, qui quidem Robertus filius
Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf per premunicionem illam coram domino
Rege ad diem ilium veniunt per Ricardum de Kesceburgh attornatum
suum. Et predicti Robertus de Scardeburg et Thomas Whyt dicunt
quod clamea ipsorum Roberti filii Willelmi et Thome Thurnyf in
itinere predicto per ipsos Robertum filium Willelmi et Thomam
Thurnyf facta et eis allocata omnino fuerunt in exheredacionem
domini Regis et Henrici comitis Lancastrie domini de Pikeryng

Treasurer and Chamberlain to inspect the forest rolls of the Pickering
Eyre which are said to be in the Treasury* under their care, to send
into Chancer)' a record of the claims by Robert Wyerne and Thomas
Thurnef.

Afterwards a writ of scire facias was directed to Robert Wyerne and
Thomas Thurnef, stating the object already mentioned of the suit
by Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White, and that they were to
appear in the Michaelmas Term to show cause against the application.
At this Term Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White appeared in
person, and the Sheriff returned that by his orders John son of Geoffrey
and John Godson had served the notice to show cause on Robert
Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef, who appeared by their attorney Richard
de Kesburgh.

Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White say that the claims made
by and allowed to Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef in the
Pickering Eyre were altogether in prejudice of the rights of the King
* This marks the locality of the rolls.

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 201

et ceterorum comunariorum et tenendum ejusdem ville de
Ebreston, quia dicunt quod quoad hoc quod predicti Robertus filius
Willelrai et Thomas Thurnyf clamabant habere wodewardum ad
custodiendum boscum suum de Ebreston, idem boscus est Henrici
comitis Lancastrie, capitalis domini ville et bosci predictorum,
ut parcella manerii de Pikeryng, et iidem Robertus de Scardeburgh,
Thomas Whyt, Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf sive alii
comunarii ejusdem ville, videlicet Gilbertus de Aton chivaler, tenens
immediatus prefati Comitis quarte partis ejusdem ville, Radulphus
de Hasty ngs tenens quarte partis ejusdem ville, Priorissa de
Yedyngham tenens tercie partis ejusdem ville, et alii tenentes immediati
ejusdem Comitis in eadem villa et comunarii ville nichil habent
in bosco predicto nisi comunam pasture et racionabilia esto-
veria, videlicet quercus ex liberacione ministrorum ipsius Comitis
•in curia sua de Pikeryng que nominantur attachiamenta de Pykeryng,
petendo boscum siccum et subboscum pro carucis suis et herceis etaliis
necessaris absque liberacione forestariorum, tanquam pertinencia ad
liberum tenementum suum in eadem villa ; et dicunt quod omnes
comunarii ejusdem ville habuerunt wodewardum per ipsos comunarios
ville predicte, videlicet per duos vel per tres de melioribus ville supra-
dicte electum, usque tempus ultimi itineris supradicti et pro quo
comunarii predicti respondere voluerunt in curia supradicta ad
custodiendum boscum predictum et comunam predictam ne comuna
predicte ville per extraneos destruereter ; et dicunt quod domini de
Pikeryng a tempore quo non extat memoria, tarn tempore progenitorum

and Henry Earl of Lancaster, lord of the manor of Pickering, and the
other commoners and tenants of Ebberston, inasmuch as Ebberston
Wood, to guard which Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef claimed
to appoint a woodward, belongs to Earl Henry as chief lord of the
township and wood, as parcel of the manor of Pickering, and neither
Robert de Scarborough, Thomas White, Robert Wyerne, Thomas
Thurnef, or any other commoners of the township, namely, Sir Gilbert
de Ayton, holding a fourth part of the township directly from the
Earl, Ralph de Hastings, holding a fourth part, and the Prioress of
Yedingham, holding a third part, and the other direct tenants of the
Earl, as commoners, have any right to the wood except common of
pasture and reasonable estovers as appurtenant to their freeholds,
namely, oaks at the livery of the forest officers in the Court of Attach-
ments at Pickering, and by seeking for dry wood and underwood for
their ploughs and harrows and other necessaries without livery of the
foresters.

All the commoners of the township, or rather two or three of the

202 APPENDIX.

domini Regis quam tempore Comitum Lancastrie, superiorem custodiam
bosci predicti semper habuerunt, et dicunt quod predicti Amaricus
Gegge et Willelmus Thurnyf, nee predictus Thomas de Ebreston
quorum statum predicti Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf
habent in bosco predicto, unquam aliquem wodewardum ibidem
habuerunt, nisi per eleccionem comunariorum ville predicte sicut pre-
dictum est, et sic dicunt quod clameum illud in itinere predicto ad
exheredacionem domini Regis et prefati Comitis et ceterorum comunari-
orum ejusdem ville eis erat allocatum, et hoc parati sunt verificare etc.
Dicunt eciam quod predicti Amaricus et Willelmus quorum statum
iidem Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf habent in tenementis
predictis nee predictus Thomas de Ebreston corticem de ali juibus
quercubus aliquibus liberatis habuerunt seu habere clamaverunt, nisi de
tenentibus suis propriis seu parvis tenentibus ville predicte tempore
quo Thomas de Ebreston, pater predicti Thome de Ebreston, qui
manerium illud prefatis Amarico et Willelmo Thurnef alienavit, fuit
ballivus manerii de Pikeryng, qui corticem et quercum ex mera volun-
tate et ex dono ei concesserunt ; et dicunt quod post remocionem
prefati Thome Thurnel* a balliva sua et officio suo, predictus Thomas
wodewardum nee corticem in bosco predicto percepit nee in aliis

most substantial persons, elected a woodward up to the date of the
last Eyre, for whom the commoners were willing to answer in Court,
and his duty was to guard the wood and the common therein lest
strangers should consume it. Further, the lords of Pickering from
time immemorial, as well in the time of the King's ancestors as of the
Earls of Lancaster, always had the chief guardianship of the wood ; and
neither Amary Gegge nor William Thurnef nor Thomas de Ebberston,
whose estate in the wood Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef have,
ever had a woodward except one elected by the commoners. On this
ground they are ready to prove that the allowance of the claim enured
to the prejudice of the King, the Earl and the other commoners of the
township. Further, they say that none of the predecessors of the
claimants Amary Gegge, William Thurnef or Thomas de Ebberston
ever had or claimed to have the bark of any oaks given to any persons,
except from their own tenants and from the small occupiers in the
township at the time when Thomas de Ebberston, father of the
Thomas de Ebberston, who sold the manor to Amary Gegge and
William Thurnef, was bailiff of the manor of Pickering ; when the
small occupiers gave him the bark and oak out of pure good will and
as a gift. After Thomas de Ebreston was removed from his bailiwick
and office he never appointed a woodward, received any bark, or
* Probably should be " de Ebreston."

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 203

proficuis sive libertatibus in predicta villa,* nisi ut comunarius ejusdem
ville ; et hoc parati sunt verificare etc. Et sic dicunt quod predicti
Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf seu antecessores seu
feoffatores ipsorum Roberti et Thome unquam aliquem wodewardum
in eleccione sua seu corticem vel quercum in predicta villa de predictis
Roberto de Scarbeburgh et Thoma Whyt seu antecessoribus seu
feoffatoribus suis habuerunt nisi pro voluntate comunariorum et
tenencium ville predicte ; et dicunt quod clamea predicta eis sic
allocata in exheredacionem domini Regis et heredum suorum, si pre-
fatus Comes sine herede de corpore suo exeunte obierit, et ejusdem
Comitis et aliorum comunariorum et tenencium ville predicte facta
fuerunt, per quod petunt quod clamea predicta adnullentur et omnino
revocentur etc. Et super hoc dies datus est partibus predictis coram
domino Rege in octabis Sancti Hillarii ubicumque etc, in statu quo
nunc etc, salvis partibus etc.

Ad quem diem veniunt predicti Robertus de Scardeburgh et Thomas
Whyte coram domino Rege et asserunt se nolle ulterius prosequit ad
presens versus prefatos Robertum filium Willelmi et Thomam Thurnyf.
ldeo iidem Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas inde sine die etc.

Year Book Term Mich. 21 Ed. III., No. 70, fo. 124, et seq.
Scire Facias. Rob. de Scaburgh et Rob. Wiche suirent un Scire
Facias vers un A. et B. sils scavoient rien dire pour que un claim mis

enjoyed any other profits or liberties in the township, except as a
commoner. This they are ready to prove. Therefore they say that
neither Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef nor their ancestors or
feoffors ever had the right to elect a woodward, or to take bark or oak
in the township from Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White or
their ancestors or feoffors, except at the good will of the commoners
and tenants. They say that the allowance of the claim will prejudice
the King and his heirs in case the Earl should happen to die without
issue, and also prejudices the Earl and the other commoners and
tenants, and they pray that it may be quashed. The matter is
adjourned until Hillary Term, 1349, where Robert de Scarborough
and Thomas White appear and enter a nolle prosequi.

Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White sued a writ of scire
facias against A. and B., to show cause why a claim made by the said

* The verb is omitted.

t A demurrer to the prayer, as the next extract shows, had been overruled, but it
is possible either that another demurrer had been successful, or that it appeared to the
legal advisers of the petitioners that a stronger case could be made out. See next
entry.

204 APPENDIX.

par les dits A. et B. devant les Justices del Forest de Pikering et
allow a eux ne serra reverse de ce quils claiment avoir en le bois de E.
et pristoner [? presenter] un gardien proprier et aussi avoir leschert
[? lescorce] en mesme le bois quel claim a eux fat allowe ad exhereda-
tionem dictorum Rob. et aliorum comunariorum ejusdem villae, et tout
cele record ils ont fait venir en Banc le Roi par proces, et ils declarent
hors del brief que touts ceux de la dite ville ont use de eslire un
Wodeward par ii ou iii de meilleurs. Et aussi touts les communaries
ont eu lescheues et raisonable estovers en le dit bois come apend tout
temps.

Skip. Les grevances sont auxi bien supposes aux autres qui ne
sont paz nomes en cest brief, come a ceux qui sont. Pourquoy juge-
ment de brief. Momb. Combien que le grevance est suppose aux autres
ja demains la suite est done a ceux qui veulent pleindre, ou si touts les
furent de leur accord ce ne grevera paz nostre suite. Skip. Ceux ij
qui font ore cest suite neussent paz este receves de mettre leur claim
en Eyre pour eux et pour les autres. Bank. Si touts fussent nomes
per vrais dit le non suit de lun abatra tout le bref que ne peut estre.
R. Th. Les ii avoient un assise sans les autres. Bank. Et si un profit

A. and B. before the Justices of Pickering Forest and allowed by
them should not be reversed so far as they claimed to have the right
of presenting their own woodward in Ebberston Wood and also to
have the bark in the same wood. The allowance of the claim was
said to be to the damage of the said Robert and the other commoners of
the township, and the record was brought by process of law into the
King's Bench ; and they declared outside their writ that all the men of
the township had been wont to choose a woodward by the voice of
two or three of the most substantial.

They also claimed that the commoners had ever had fallen wood [?]
and reasonable estovers as common appendant.

Skipwith ;* — The damages are alleged to have been suffered as well
by others who are not named in the writ as by those who are ; where-
fore we ask for judgment of the writ. Mowbray; — Notwithstanding
that others are alleged to have suffered damage a right of action is
given to those who are willing to plead, for our action ought not to be
prejudiced merely because all the rest are in accord with the
claimants. Skipwith ; — The two who now bring their action would not
have been allowed in the Eyre to have claimed for themselves and the
others. Bankwell ; — If all had been named, to tell the truth, the nonsuit
of one would have made the writ abate, which ought not to be. R.
Thorpe ; — The two had an assize without the rest. Bankwell ; — and if a

* Skipwith and Mowbray were Counsel, Bankwell and Robert Thorpe Justices.

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 205

soit grante a un cornmunalte en Gildable hors de le Forest il covient
que claim soit mise par "eux touts ; mais autre est dans le Forest ou
chascun aura accion a parluy de ce que a luy attient. Et apres le brief
fut agard bon.

Coram Rege Easter 22 Ed. Ill , m. 40.
[The record commences in the same manner as the preceding. The
distinctions are so few that it is not worth while to set out the
whole. The trial was fixed for Easter term ; the warning was served
by Geoffrey del Cote and John Gotson. After stating, as before, that
the Sheriff had issued the warning, it proceeds.] Qui quidem Robertus
filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf per premunicionem illam coram
domino Rege per Johannem de Hakethorn attornatum suum ad diem
ilium veniunt, et predicti Robertus de Scardeburgh et Thomas White
dicunt quod clamea ipsorum Roberti filii Willelmi et Thome Thurnyf
in itinere predicto per ipsos Robertum filium Willelmi et Thomam
Thurnyf facta et eis allocata omnino fuerunt in exheredacionem domini
Regis et Henrici Comitis Lancastrie, domini manerii et honoris de
Pikering et comunariorum et tenendum ejusdem ville de Ebreston,
quia dicunt quod quoad hoc quod predictus Robertus filius Willelmi et
Thomas Thurnyf clamabant habere wodewardum ad custodiendum
boscum suum de Ebriston, tanquam pertinentem ad manerium suum
de Ebriston, asserendo illud fore manerium in seisina cujusdam
Thome de Ebreston feoffatoris Americi Gege et Willelmi Thurnyf

profit be granted to a community in geldable land outside the Forest,
the claim must be made by all, but it is otherwise in the Forest, where
every man can bring an action by himself for whatever concerns him.
Afterwards the writ was held to be good.

Easter, 1348.
Robert de Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef appeared by John de
Hawthorn their attorney, and Robert de Scarborough and Thomas
White said that the allowance of the claim in the Eyre prejudiced the
King, the Earl, and the commoners and tenants of Ebberston. For
whereas they claim that their predecessor in title, Thomas de Ebber-
ston, while seised of the manor of Ebberston, had as appurtenant
thereto a woodward to keep his wood, the petitioners say that the so-
called manor consists only of a messuage, six tofts and crofts lately
united and built upon, and two carucates of land which are now equally
divided between Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef. Further,
Thomas de Ebberston never had any estate in the wood, except as a

206 APPENDIX.

quorum statum iidem Robertus et Thomas nunc clamant, tenementa
ilia non sunt nisi* unum mesuagium, sex toftaet crofta de novo unita et
superedificata ac due carucate terre, que quidem mesuagium et terre
inter ipsos Robertum Wyerne et Thomam Thurnyf jam equaliter divi-
duntur, absque hoc quod idem Thomas de Ebriston aliquem statum
habuit in eodem bosco nisi ut comunarius et convicinus ejusdem ville,
est omnis idem boscus Henrici Comitis Lancastrie, capitalis domini
ville et bosci predictorum ut parcella manerii de Pikeryng, et iidem
Robertus de Scardeburgh et Thomas Whit et Robertus filius Willelmi
et Thomas Thurnif sive comunarii ejusdem ville, videlicet Gilbertus de
Aton Chivaler tenens immediate prefati Comitis quarte partis ejusdem
ville, Radulfus de Hastyng tenens quarte partis ejusdem ville,
Priorissa de Yedyngham tenens tercie partis ejusdem ville et alii
tenentes immediati ejusdem Comitis in eadem villa et comunarii
ejusdem ville, nichil habent in bosco predicto nisi comunam
pasture et racionabilia estoveria, videlicet quercus ex libera-
cione ministrorum ipsius Comitis in curia sua de Pykering que
nominantur attachiamenta de Pykering, petendo boscum suum et sub-
boscum suum pro carucis suis et herceis et aliis necessariis absque
liberacione forestariorum tanquam pertinencia ad liberum tenementum
suum in eadem villa, et dicunt quod omnes comunarii ejusdem ville
habuerunt wodewardum per ipsos comunariosf ville predicte electum
et per duos vel tres de melioribus ipsorum nomine predictorum
comunariorum presentatum usque tempus ultimi itineris supradicti, et

commoner and neighbour:): of the township, which wood entirely
belongs to Henry Earl of Lancaster, the chief lord of the township and
wood, as parcel of the manor of Pickering ; and neither Robert de
Scarborough, Thomas White, Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef,
nor any of the commoners, such as Sir Gilbert de Ayton, who holds
directly from the Earl one-fourth of the township, Sir Ralph de
Hastings, who holds the same, the Prioress of Yedingham, who holds
a third part, and the other immediate tenants of the Earl have any
rights in the wood, except common of pasture and reasonable estovers, as
appurtenant to their freeholds, namely, oaks at the livery of the Earl's
foresters in the Attachment Court of Pickering, and by seeking for dry
wood and underwood for their ploughs and harrows and other necessaries
without livery of the foresters. All the commoners of the township up
to the date of the last Eyre elected a woodward, who was presented
by two or three of the most substantial men amongst them in the name

* They now refuse to admit that it constituted a manor.

t This amendment is worth notice.

i Common of vicinage is the term that naturally occurs to one.

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 207

pro quo comunarii predicti respondere voluerunt in curia supradicta
ad custodiendum in bosco illo predicti Comitis comunam (super)
predictam ne communa predicte ville per extraneos destrueretur, et
dicunt quod domini de Pikering a tempore quo non extat memoria
tarn tempore progenitorum domini Regis quam tempore Comitum
Lancastrie superiorem custodiam bosci predicti semper habuerunt, ut
domini bosci, vasti et soli usque ad divisam que vocatur Cokedyke,
infra quam divisam tenentes immediati predicti ipsius Comitis totum
solum infra illam divisam tenent ut participes equi status prout indi-
vise ; et dicunt quod nee predictus Amaricus Gegge nee Willelmus
Thurnif nee predictus Thomas de Ebreston quorum statum predicti
Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf habent in bosco predicto
nunquam aliquem wodwardum ibidem habuerunt nisi per eleccionem
comunariorum ville predicte sicut predictum est. Et sic dicunt quod
clamea predicta in itinere predicto ad exheredacionem domini Regis et
prefati Comitis et ceterorum comunariorum ejusdem ville eis erat
allocatum [sic] et hoc parati sunt verificare etc. Dicunt eciam quod
predicti Amaricus et Willelmus quorum statum iidem Robertus
filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnif habent in tenementis predictis nee
predictus Thomas de Ebreston corticem de aliquibus quercubus
aliquibus liberatis habuerunt seu habere clamaverunt, nisi de tenentibus
suis propriis seu parvis tenentibus ville predicte tempore quo Thomas
de Ebriston, pater predicti Thome de Ebriston qui predicta mesuagia

of all and for whom the commoners were willing to answer in Court, to
guard their common in the Earl's wood lest it be consumed by
strangers ; but from time immemorial the Lords of Pickering, as well
in the days of the Kings of England as of the Earls of Lancaster,
always had the chief guardianship of the wood, as being lords of the
wood, waste and soil, up to the boundary called Cook dike, within
which boundary the immediate tenants of the Earl hold the whole
soil as tenants in common in equal undivided shares. Neither Amery
Gegge, nor William Thurnef, nor Thomas de Ebberston, whose estate
in the wood Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef have, ever had a
woodward, except one elected by the commoners. On this ground
they are ready to prove that the allowance of the claim enured to the
prejudice of the King, the Earl, and the commoners. Further, they
say that none of the predecessors of the claimants Amery Gegge,
William Thurnef, or Thomas de Ebberston ever had or claimed to have
the bark of any oaks given to any persons, except from their own tenants
and from the small occupiers in the township at the time when Thomas
de Ebberston, the father of the Thomas de Ebberston who sold the
messuage and lands to Amary Gegge and William Thurnef, was bailiff

208 APPENDIX.

et terras prefatis Amarico et Willelmo Thurnyf alienavit, extitit ballivus
manerii de Pikeryng, qui corticem quercuum tunc temporis suarum eis
liberatarum pro timore officii sui ei concesserunt ; et dicunt quod post
remocionem prefati Thome de Ebriston a balliva sua et officio suo
predictus Thomas wodwardum nee corticem in bosco predicto percepit
nee in aliis proficuis sive libertatibus in predicta villa nisi ut comu-
narius ejusdem ville, et hoc parati sunt verificare etc ; et sic dicunt
quod predicti Robertus films Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf seu ante-
cessors seu feoffatores ipsorum Roberti et Thome nunquam aliquem
wodwardum in eleccione sua seu corticem vel quercum in predicto
bosco de predictis Roberto de Scardeburgh et Thoma White seu eorum
feofatoribus vel eorum antecessoribus habuerunt, nisi pro voluntate
comunariorum et tenendum ville predicte ; et dicunt quod clamea
predicta eis sic allocata in exheredacionem domini Regis et heredum
suorum, si predictus Comes sine herede de corpore suo exeunte
obierit, et ejusdem Comitis et aliorum comunariorum et tenendum
ville predicte facta fuerunt etc. Dicunt eciam quod idem Thomas de
Ebreston nee aliqui antecessores sui seu aliqui alii a tempore quo non
extat memoria terras et tenementa ilia tenentes ante tempus ultimi
itineris etc in quocumque itinere in foresta de Pikeryng tento tempori-
bus retroactis unquam aliqua clamea de eisdem wodewardo et cortice
proposuerunt, nee aliquas hujusmodi libertates seu aliquem statum in
eodem bosco clamaverunt, nisi ut comunarii et convicini, prout mani-
feste liquere potest per recordum et rotulos domini Willelmi de Vescy
et sociorum suorum nuper in eadem foresta de Pykeryng Justiciario-

of the manor of Pickering, when the small occupiers, from fear of his
office, gave him the bark from their livery oaks. After Thomas de
Ebberston was removed from his bailiwick and office he never appointed
a woodward, received any bark, or enjoyed any other profits or liberties
in the township except as a commoner. This they are ready to prove.
Therefore they say that neither Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef
nor their ancestors or feoffors ever had the right to elect a woodward,
or to take bark or oak in the township from Robert de Scarborough
and Thomas White, or their ancestors or feoffors, except at the good
will of the commoners and tenants. They say that the allowance of the
claim will prejudice the King and his heirs in case the Earl should
happen to die without issue, and also prejudices the Earl and the
other commoners and tenants. Moreover they say that neither
Thomas de Ebberston, nor any of his ancestors, nor any of the occu-
piers of the lands in question from time immemorial ever in any Forest
Eyre held at Pickering up to the last made any claims to the wood-
ward and bark, or to such like liberties, and never claimed any estate

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 209

rum itinerancium seu aliorum quorumcumque Justiciariorum ibidem
itinerancium retroactis temporibus, quousque jam in ultimo itinere
tempore Regis nunc tento apud Pykeryng prefati Robertus de Wyerne
et Thomas Thurnyf in fine ejusdem itineris proposuerunt clamea pre-
dicta clam et subdole machinantes tam ipsum Regem ad quem spectat
reversio manerii et honoris de Pykeryng per formam doni nuper
Edmundo Comiti Lancastrie inde facti, quam ipsum Comitem
qui nunc est exheredare, ac participes, convicinos et communarios
ejusdem ville de Ebriston colore illius clamei sic subdole propositi
subpeditare et subjugare, per quod petunt quod clamea ilia omnino
revocentur et adnullentur etc.

Et predicti Robertus Alius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnif dicunt
quod clamea ilia eis in itinere predicto rite et legittimo modo allocata
fuerunt, dicunt enim quod predictus Robertus de Wyerne et Thomas
de Ebreston et omnes tenentes manerium predictum habuerunt wode-
wardum et corticem de omnibus quercubus succisis in bosco de
Ebreston et per ballivum et forestarios domini de Pikeringe liberatis,
sicut ipsi per clameum suum supposuerunt ; et hoc parati sunt veri-
ficare etc.

Et Robertus de Scardeburgh et Thomas White dicunt quod nee
prefatus Thomas de Ebreston nee antecessores sui seu aliqui alii terras
et tenementa tenentes a tempore quo non extat memoria unquam

in the wood except as commoners and neighbours, as will appear from
the Forest Rolls of William de Vescy and his fellows, late Justices
itinerant in the forest, and of any other Justices itinerant in past
times. But at the end of the last Eyre Robert de Wyerne and Thomas
Thurnef secretly and craftily made their claims, imagining mischief as
well against the King who, according to the form of the gift to Edmund
Earl of Lancaster, is entitled to the reversion in the Manor and Honour
of Pickering as against the Earl himself, and to supplant and oppress
their tenants in common, neighbours and commoners of the township
of Ebberston by colour of a claim so craftily made. Wherefore they
pray that the claims may be disallowed.

But Robert de Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef maintain that the
allowance of their claims in the last Eyre was regular and in accord-
ance with law, for they are ready to prove that all former occupiers of
the manor had a woodward, and the bark of all oaks felled in Ebber-
ston wood and delivered by the bailiff and foresters of Pickering, as
mentioned in their claim.

This Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White explicitly deny, and
say that they never had any estate in the wood, except as commoners
and neighbours of the township, until the time of Earl Edmund, who

vol. in., n.s. p

210 APPENDIX.

eleccionem wodewardi nee corticem de omnibus quercubus succisis
prout ipsi per clamea sua supponunt, separati habuerunt nee aliquem
statum nisi ut comunarii et convicini ville predicte habuerunt, quousque
tempore Edmundi Comitis qui manerium de Pikerynge unde predicta
villa de Ebreston est parcella tenuit ex dono Henrici Regis proavi etc,
quo tempore predictus Thomas de Ebreston fuit senescallus et ballivus
manerii et honoris de Pikerynge, et quo tempore quidam parvi tenentes
ejusdem ville ipsum Thomam pro timore officii sui corticem de quercu-
bus succisis eis liberatis capere permiserunt et extorquere, set nee de
prefatis Roberto de Scardeburgh nee Thoma White nee eorum feoffa-
toribus nee eorum antecessoribus aliquam corticem de quercubus suis
eis liberatis habuerunt prout per clamea sua supponunt, nee eleccionem
wodewardi, nisi in communi cum aliis convicinis et comunariis
ville predicte, nee aliqua clamia de eisdem libertatibus temporibus
retroactis per ipsum Thomam de Ebreston seu alios quoscumque
terras et tenementa ilia tenentes coram quibuscumque Justiciariis in
foresta predicta itinerantibus allocata fuerunt, usque jam in itinere
tempore Regis nunc tento apud Pikerynge predictus Robertus Alius
Willelmi et Thomas Thurnef in fine ejusdem itineris clamia ilia pro-
posuerunt, qui terras et tenementa ilia eis adquisita de novo tenent
etc, et sic subdole machinantes tam ipsum Regem ad quem spectat
reversio predictorum manerii et honoris etc per forma m doni facti
prefato Edmundo nuper Comiti Lancastrie, quam ipsum Comitem
qui nunc est exheredare ac participes, convicinos et comunarios ejusdem
ville colore clameorum predictorum subjugare; et hoc petunt quod

held the Manor of Pickering, of which the township of Ebberston is
parcel, by gift from King Henry III. Thomas de Ebberston was
then steward and bailiff of the Manor and Honor of Pickering,
and certain small occupiers of the township from fear of his office
allowed him to take by extortion the bark of their livery oaks which
had been felled, but they never had the bark of any of the livery
oaks of Robert de Scarborough or Thomas White, or their feoffors
or ancestors as they allege in their claim, nor did they ever elect a
woodward except in common with the neighbours and commoners
of the township. Moreover, neither Thomas de Ebberston, nor any
other occupiers of the lands ever in times past, were allowed their
claims to any of the liberties before any Justices of the forest, until
in the last Pickering Eyre Robert de Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef
(who had only lately acquired the lands) made their claim at the end
of the Eyre, craftily imagining mischief against the King, in respect
of his reversion, and against the Earl, and hoping to oppress their
tenants in common, neighbours and commoners by colour of their

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 211

inquiratur per patriam ; et predicti Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas
Thurnef similiter. Ideo veniat inde Jurata coram domino Rege a die
Sancte Trinitatis in xv dies ubicumque etc, et qui nee etc, ad recordum
etc, quia tam etc.

Coram Rege Trin. 22 Ed. III. m. 43d.
Jurata inter Robertum de Scardeburgh et Thomam White tenentes
et communarios ville de Ebreston querentes et Robertum filium
Willelmi Wyern et Thomam Thurnyf ad recognoscendum etc si pre-
dicti Robertus filius Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf habuerunt wode-
wardum ad custodiendum boscum suum de Ebreston secundum assisam
foreste et corticem de omnibus quercubus succisis et per ballivum et
forestarios domini de Pykeryng alicui liberatis in bosco de Ebreston
ante ultimum iter prout per clameum suum in ultimo itinere foreste
Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de Pykeryng coram Ricardo de Wylughby
et sociis suis Justiciariis itinerantibus ad placita foreste predicte in
comitatu predicto assignatis die Lune proximo post festum Sancti
Michaelis anno regni Regis nunc Anglie octavo clamatorum [? clama-
verunt], vel si predicti Robertus de Scardeburgh et Thomas White et
alii communarii habuerunt wodewardum et corticem de omnibus quer-
cubus similiter prout ipsi in Curia Regis coram Rege placitando
supponunt, nisi in communi cum aliis communariis et convicinis ville
predicte, que quidem clamea eis allocata fuerunt in itinere predicto in
exheredacionem ipsorum Roberti de Scardeburgh et Thome White et
aliorum communariorum ville predicte, sicut predicti Robertus filius
Willelmi et Thomas Thurnyf dicunt, vel non sicut predicti Robertus de
Scardeburgh et Thomas White dicunt necne, ponitur in respectum

claims. They pray an inquiry, and Robert de Wyerne and Thomas
Thurnef do the like. A Jury is summoned for the following Trinity
Term.

Trinity Term, 1348.
The Jury between Robert de Scarborough and Thomas White,
tenants and commoners of the township of Ebberston, plaintiffs, and
Robert Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef, defendants, is respited until
Michaelmas Term because none of the Jury were present. The question
at issue is whether Robert de Wyerne and Thomas Thurnef had, as
they allege, a woodward, according to the Assize of the Forest, to guard
their wood at Ebberston, and also had the bark from all oaks felled
in that wood and delivered to any person by the bailiff and foresters of
Pickering, as the defendants successfully claimed in the Forest Eyre,
held on the 6th Oct., 1334, before Richard de Willoughby and his

p 2

212 APPENDIX.

usque a die Sancti Michaelis in xv dies ubicumque etc. propter defec-
tum Juratorum quia nullus etc. Ideo vicecomes habeat corpora etc.

Coram Rege Mich. 22 Ed. III. m. 1.

.... ponitur in respectum usque in Octabas Sancti Martini ubicum-
que etc. (as before).

id. m. io2d.
.... ponitur in respectum usque a die Sancti Hillarii in xv dies
ubicumque etc per defectum Juratorum qui nullus etc. Ideo vice-
comes habeat corpora etc, et preceptum est vicecomiti quod non
omittat propter libertatem de Pykeryng quin etc, et vicecomes apponat
octo tales etc.

Coram Rege Hill 23 Ed. III. m. 48d.
.... ponitur in respectum usque a die Pasche in tres Septimanes . . .

Coram Rege Pash 23 Ed. III. m. 26d.

.... ponitur in respectum usque a die Sancti Johannis Baptiste in
xv. dies. . . .

[Unfortunately the Coram Rege Roll of Trinity 23 Ed. III. is
missing, and as I do not find the action referred to in any later Rolls
I am afraid that it was determined in that term, and that the record of
it is lost.]

Coram Rege Trin. 22 Ed. III. m. 26.

Robertus de Scardeburgh chivaler per Willelmum de Wissynden

fellow Justices, or whether, as the plaintiffs allege, they and the other
commoners elected the woodward in common and had their own
bark.

Michaelmas Term, 1348.

It was again respited to Martinmas, and afterwards to Hillary Term,
peremptory directions being given to the Sheriff to summon the
Jury.

Hillary Term, 1349-

It was respited until Easter Term.

Easter Term, 1349.
It was respited until Trinity Term.

Trinity, 1348.
Sir Robert de Scarborough by his attorney William de Whissendine

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 213

attornatum suum optulit se [quarto]* die versus Thomam Thurnyf,
Thomam de Westhorp, Henricum de Repplee, Johannem of the Dale
et Robertum Wigan ballivos Henrici Comitis Lancastrie de Pikeryng
de placito quare cum ad communem utilitatem regni Anglie sta[tutum]
sit quod nullus de eodem regno distringatur per averia carucarum
suarum vel per oves pro de[bitis] Regis aut alienorum seu alia quacum-
que causa aut occasione per ballivos seu rainistros Regis aut aliorum
quamdiu a[lia] habeat averia per que racionabilis districcio super ipsum
fieri possit pro debitis illis levandis ex[ceptis] dumtaxat averiis illis que
in dampno alicujus inventa secundum legem et consuetudinem [regni]
Regis Anglie imparcari contigerint, predicti Thomas, Thomas, Henricus
Johannes et Robertus Wygan [averia] predicti Roberti de Scardeburgh
de caruca sua apud Yedyngham contra formam statuti [predicti]
ceperunt et imparcaverunt et ea ibidem diu imparcata detinuerunt
contra legem et consuetudinem regni Regis Anglie et contra pacem
Regis etc. Et ipsi non veniunt et preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod
attacheret eos etc ; et vicecomes retornavit quod precepit Thome
Thurnyf ballivo libertatis de Pikeryng qui nichil inde fecit etc. Ideo
sicut prius preceptum est vicecomiti quod non omittat propter liber-
tatem predictam quin attachiat prefatos Thomam Thurnyf et alios
quod sint coram Rege a die Sancti Michaelis in xv dies ubicumque etc,
et unde etc.

appeared against Thomas Thurnef,t Thomas de Westhorp, Henry de
Rippley, John of the Dale and Robert Wigan, bailiffs of Henry, Earl
of Lancaster, at Pickering, on the ground that whereas for the general
welfare of the land it was ordained J that no distress should be levied
on beasts of the plough or sheep, whether for the debts of the King or
of others, for any reason or any occasion whatsoever, by the bailiffs and
officers of the King or of others so long as there are any other beasts
on which distress can be levied, always excepting an impounding by
common law of cattle damage feasant. Nevertheless the bailiffs men-
tioned took Sir Robert's beasts from his plough at Yedingham contrary
to the form of the statute, impounded them and kept them contrary to
law. They do not appear, and the Sheriff was directed to attach them ;
he made his return that he had directed Thomas Thurnef,§ the bailiff
of the honor, to serve process, but the latter had done nothing. The
Sheriff is directed to serve process himself notwithstanding that it is
within a liberty.

* This roll is not in good order, having evidently been injured by water. The last
word in every line is illegible.

+ They were probably all under-foresters.

J 28 Edward I., c. 12. § One of the defendants.

214 APPENDIX.

Coram Rege (No. 354) Mich. 22 Ed. III. m. 3d.
Preceptum fuit vicecomiti sicut pluries quod non omitteret propter
libertatem de Pykeryng quin per probos etc scire faceret Radulfo de
Hastynges chivaler quod esset coram domino Rege ad hunc diem
ubicumque etc auditurus recordum et judicium suum de loquela que
fuit in Curia Regis inter ipsum Radulfum et Priorem Hospitalis Sancti
Johannis Jerusalem in Anglia de eo quod cum dominus Edwardus nuper
Rex Anglie pater Regis nunc [here the grant of the Templars lands to
the Hospitallers is set forth in the similar language to that at p. 144].
et licet prefatus pater Regis nunc tunc vicecomiti suo Comitatus pre-
dicti precepisset sicut ceteris vicecomitibus regni sui pluries preceperit
quod omnia terras et tenementa, dominia, feoda, ecclesiarum advoca-
ciones et libertates predicta in balliva sua que fuerunt predictorum
Magistri et Fratrum ordinis Milicie Temple in Anglia tempore cessa-
cionis et adnullacionis predictarum in quorumcumque manibus essent,
tam infra libertates quam extra, sine dilacione in manu dicti patris
Regis nunc seisiri et ea post hujusmodi seisinam nomine ejusdem patris
etc habitam predictis Priori et Fratribus Hospitalis liberari faceret,
tenenda sibi et successoribus suis imperpetuum, idem tamen vicecomes
manerium de Avestan [PAlverstan] quod fuit ipsorum Templariorum
tempore cessacionis et adnullacionis predictarum, et quod Radulfus de
Hastynges jam tenet, ut dicitur, occupatum, in favorem ejusdem
Radulfi, in manu ipsius patris etc seisire et illud prefatis Priori et
Fratribus Hospitalis liberare non curavit, sic quod manerium illud eis
taliter adhuc detinetur in ipsorum Prions et Fratrum Hospitalis
dampnum non modicum et gravamen et contra formam statuti et
mandati predictorum ; ita quod loquela ilia tunc esset ibi in eodem
statu in quo fuit in prefata Curia Regis coram ipso Rege in Octabis
Sancte Trinitatis anno regni Regis nunc Anglie vicesimo et primo
quando loquela ilia remansit sine die eo quod predictus Radulfus

Michaelmas, 1348.

The Sheriff was directed to summon Sir Ralph Hastings to hear
judgments in the action between himself and the Prior of St. John of
Jerusalem, who claimed that although King Edward II. had granted to
the Knights Hospitallers all the lands which formerly belonged to the
Templars, and had directed the Sheriff of Yorkshire, as well as the
other Sheriffs, to seize and deliver to the Prior all the lands, tenements,
demesnes, fees, advowsons, and liberties which formerly belonged to
the Templars before their suppression, no matter in whose hands they
might be, yet the Sheriff out of favour for Sir Ralph has seized and
delivered to the Prior the Manor of Allerston, which is now occupied

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 215

profectus fuit in obsequium Regis ad partes transmarinas et habuit inde
proteccionem Regis a quarto die Junii tunc proxime preterito usque ad
festum Sancti Michaelis proxime sequentem etc. Et vicecomes
retornavit quod breve adeo tarde etc. Ideo sicut pluries preceptum est
vicecomiti quod non omittat propter libertatem predictam quin per
probos etc scire faceret prefato Radulfo quod sit coram domino Rege in
Octabis Sanctini Martini ubicumque etc, ad ostendendum etc, si etc,
et ulterius etc, quod Curia etc, in forma predicta etc. Ad quem diem
coram domino Rege venerunt predicti Prior et Fratres Hospitalis per
attornatum suum, et vicecomes non misit breve. Ideo sicut pluries
[a summons to appear at Hillary].

Coram Rege (No. 358) Hill. 24 Ed. III. m. 2.
[It was again adjourned to Easter following.]

Coram Rege (No. 359) Easter 24 Ed. III. m. 3d.
[The commencement is in practically the same language.]
Et modo coram domino Rege veniunt predicti Prior et Fratres per
Robertum de Acastre attornatum suum, et predictus Radulfus quarto
die placiti solempnitur vocatus non venit, et vicecomes retornavit
quod scire fecit ei per Johannem de Kirkeby et Johannem de Pykeryng ;
Et super hoc iidem Prior et Fratres petunt execucionem etc. Ideo
consideratum est quod iidem Prior et Fratres recuperent seisinam suam
versus eum de predicto manerio cum pertinenciis, et idem Radulfus
sine die etc. Et quia dubitatur de fraude inde inter eos prelocuta
contra statutum* quo cavetur ne terre seu tenementa ad manum
mortuam deveniant quoquo modo, ideo veniat inde jurata xxiiij coram

by Sir Ralph, and before the suppression of their Order belonged to the
Templars. Last Trinity Term the action was adjourned because Sir
Ralph was then beyond the seas in the King's service, and had a writ of
protection from the 4th of June up to Michaelmas.

The Sheriff returned that there had been no time to serve process,
and he was directed to serve process by the octave of Martinmas, on
which day the Prior attended but the Sheriff had not sent the writ.

Easter, 1349.

And now the Prior appears by his attorney, Robert de Acaster, and

Sir Ralph, though solemnly called on the fourth day, did not appear.

The Sheriff returned that he had served process on him by John de

Kirkby and John de Pickering. The Prior and Brethren pray execu-

* 18 Ed. III., c. 3.

2l6 APPENDIX.

domino Rege in crastino Sancti Johannis Baptiste ubicumque etc per
quos etc ad recognoscendum quale jus predicti Prior et Fratres
habeant etc, et quis predecessor etc, et scire faciant capitalibus dominis
etc quod sint coram domino Rege ad prefatum crastinum Sancti
Johannis Baptiste ubicumque etc audituri juratam illam si etc, et
interim cesset executio etc. Ad quern diem veniunt coram domino
Rege predicti Prior et Fratres et vicecomes non misit breve, ideo sicut
prius fiat inde breve in forma predicta retomabile coram domino Rege
in Octabis Sancti Michaelis ubicumque etc, et vicecomes interim scire
faciat capitalibus dominis etc quod sint coram domino Rege ad pre-
fatum terminum audituri juratam predictam si etc. Ad quem diem
veniunt predicti Prior et Fratres per attornatum suum predictum, et
vicecomes non retornavit breve etc, ideo sicut pluries veniat inde jurata
xxiiij coram domino Rege in Octabis Sancti Hillarii ubicumque etc nisi
Willelmus Basset die Mercurii proximo post festum Sancti Lucie Virginis
apud Eboracum prius venerit, et qui etc, ad recognoscendum etc, et
vicecomes interim scire faciat capitalibus dominis etc quod sint coram
domino Rege ad prefatas Octabas Sancti Hillarii ubicumque etc, vel
coram prefato Willelmo Basset predictis die et loco etc audituri
juratam illam si etc, et interim cesset execucio etc, et vicecomes non
omittat eo quod alias etc. Ad quem diem veniunt coram domino
Rege predicti Prior et Fratres per Robertum de Acastre attornatum
suum, et vicecomes retornavit quod breve adeo tarde venit quod illud
exequi non potuit etc. Ideo sicut pluries veniat inde jurata xxiiij
coram domino Rege a die Pasche in tres septimanas ubicumque etc nisi
Willelmus Basset die Lune proximo post festum Annunciacionis Beate
Marie Virginis apud Eboracum prius venerit, et qui etc ad recognos-
cendum etc, et vicecomes interim scire faciat capitalibus dominis etc
quod sint coram Rege ad prefatas tres septimanas Pasche ubicumque
etc vel coram predicto Willelmo Basset predictis die et loco etc
audituri juratam illam si etc, et interim cesset execucio etc, et vicecomes
non omittat eo quod alias etc. Ad quas tres septimanas Pasche coram
domino Rege venit predictus Prior per attornatum suum etc, et pre-

tion of the writ. Judgment is given that they recover seisin of the
Manor. Afterwards doubts arise in the mind of the Court whether this
is not a scheme to evade the provisions of the recent Statute of Mort-
main, a jury of twenty-four is summoned for the 25th of June, 1350,
and the chief Lords are summoned by writ of scire facias for that day.
It was afterwards adjourned to Michaelmas Term, York Assizes, on the
15th of December, to Hillary Term, in King's Bench, and was finally
tried at York Assizes, before William Basset, on Monday, 28th March,
1 35 1. In Easter Term following William Basset entered the verdict

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 21 J

dictus Willelmus Basset coram quo etc tulit hie recordum veredicti in
hec verba. Postea die et loco predictis coram prefato Willelmo
Basset associato sibi Johanne de Upsale juxta formam statuti, venit
predictus Prior per attornatum suum et similiter jurati ad hoc sum-
moniti, qui quidem jurati triati et jurati dicunt super sacramentum
suum quod manerium de Alvestan quod vocatur manerium Templari-
orum fuit in seisina Willelmi de la More quondam Magistri Milicie
Templi in Anglia et idem Willelmus et predecessores sui, Magistri Milicie
Templi predicti, a tempore quo memoria non existit fuerunt seisiti de
manerio predicto ut de jure Templi sui predicti, et dicunt quod non est
aliqua fraus nee colusio inter partes predictas. Ideo consideratum est
quod predicti Prior et Fratres etc habeant inde execucionem etc.

Coram Rege No. (354) Mich. 22 Ed. III. (Fines) m. 5.
De Hugone de Neville nuper ballivo libertatis de Pykeryng vacabundo
de fine pro capcione et arestamento Roberti le Lyster et pro capcione
viginti solidorum a prefato Roberto colore officii sui per extorsionem
unde indictatus est et per cognicionem suam convictus ; per plegium
Willelmi Courcy et Willelmi de Holthorp .... xxs.

id m. 6 (Fines).

De Thoma Thurnefe ballivo libertatis de Pikeryng quia non venit
coram Rege ad prefatum diem [die Lune in Octabis Sancti Michaelis
isto eodem termino] . . . . vs.

De eodem Thoma quia non retornavit panellum ad prefatum diem
Xs.

in the following terms : — " Afterwards before William Basset and John de
Upsall, Commissioner of Assize, the Jury find that the Manor of Aller-
ston, called the Templar's Manor, formerly was in the seisin of William
de la More, Master of the Templars, and that he and his predecessors
were from time immemorial seised of the Manor in right of the Temple.
They say that there was no fraud or collusion between the parties."
Judgment is given in favour of the Prior.

Michaelmas, 1348.

From Hugh de Nevill, late bailiff of Pickering, fined for having
arrested Robert the Dyer, and taken 20s from him by extortion, for which
offence he was indicted and found guilty on his own confession. £1.
Sureties, William Courcy and William de Holthorp.

From Thomas Thurnef, bailiff of Pickering, for not appearing in the
King's Bench on Monday, 6 October, 1348, 5s; and for not returning
the panell, 10s.

2l8 APPENDIX.

id m. 5<3. (Fines).

De Roberto de Scardeburgh milite de fine pro subtraccione taxe sue
quinte decime in villa de Ebreston in Pykeringlith ad quam assessus
fuit, unde indictatus est et per cognicionem suam convictus, per ple-
gium Roberti Paa de Scardeburgh et Willelmi de Pokelington .....
di mar,

Coram Rege (355) Hill. 23 Ed. III. m. 6.

Item presentant quod Rogerus de Allestane, Thomas White de
Ebreston et alii die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Johannis Baptiste
anno regni Regis nunc Anglie decimo octavo apud Ebreston in qeun-
dam Johannem de Foxholes* assignatum per commissionem vice-
comitis Eboracensis ad levandam nonam garbarum domino Regi
concessarum, scilicet de Roberto de Scardeburgh Chivaler decern
libras in Ebreston et aliis de dicta taxa a retro existentibus vi et armis
insultum fecerunt et ipsum ceperunt et in officio suo faciendo ipsum
verberaverunt et vulneraverunt et male tractaverunt, -in despectum
domini Regis et in retardacionem negociorum suorum . predictorum et
ad dampnum ipsius Johannis de Foxholes centum librarum et contra
pacem Regis, per quod preceptum fuit vicecomiti quod venire faceret
coram Rege predictos Rogerum de Allerstane et alios ad respondendum
domino Regi super premissis ; qui quidem Rogerus de Allerstane et
alii veniunt et allocuti singillatim qualiter se de premissis velint
acquietare, qui premissa dedicere non possunt, set singillitim ponunt se
ad graciam Regis et fecerunt finem cum domino Rege occasionibus

From Sir Robert de Scarborough fined for nonpayment of his
fifteenth to which he was assessed in Ebberston ; for which offence he
was indicted and found guilty on his own confession, 6s 8d. Sureties,
Robert Parr, of Scarborough, and William de Pocklington.

Hillary, 1349.
The Jury present that Roger de Allerstan, Thomas White, of Ebber-
ston, and others, on Monday, 28th June, 1344, violently assaulted John
de Foxholes, who had been appointed by the Sheriff to collect the
arrears of the ninth sheaf f granted to the King, namely ,£10 from
Sir Robert de Scarborough, and other arrears. They beat, wounded,
and ill-treated him whilst in the execution of his office, in contempt of
the King and delaying his business. John suffered damage to the
extent of ^100. The delinquents are summoned, appear and admit

* From the preceding roll (384) (Fines m. 8d.) we learn that he was bailiff of the
wapentake of Buckrose. Thomas White was fined 20s.

t See Nonarum Inquisitiones and Statutes, 14 Edward III., st. 1, c. 20.

CORAM REGE ROLLS. 219

predictis prout patet per rotulos finium de termino Sancti Michaelis
anno regni Regis nunc Anglie vicesimo secundo. Ideo ipsi eant inde
quieti etc.

id m. 10.

" Item presentant quod qualibet vice qua villa de Ebreston oneratur
cum taxacione domini Regis, videlicet ad quintodecimam cum centum
solidis, Robertus de Scardeburgh miles qui tenens est partis ville pre-
dicte deberet pro porcione sua solvere ad quintodecimam cum com-
munitate ville predicte sex solidos vel septem, unde nichil solvit in
magna oppressione communitatis predicte.

Item presentant quod Hugo de Neville tempore quo fuit ballivus
libertatis de Pykeryng colore officii sui cepit et arestavit quendam
Robertum le Littester nuper manentem in Ebreston et ligavit ejus
manus tanquam latronem et felonem domini Regis, qui non fuit indic-
tatus, et cepit de eo unum equum, armaturam et alia bona et catalla ad
valenciam viginti solidorum. Postea idem Hugo mandavit predictum
Robertum cum garcione sua versus Eboracum, qui quidem garcio in
itinerando permisit ipsum evadere ab eo in villa de Malton.

# id m. 6 (Fines).

De Hugone de Neville nuper ballivo de Pykeryng de fine pro
diversis transgressionibus in comitatu predicto perpetratis unde coram
domino Rege indictatus est et cognicione sua propria convictus, per
plegium Willelmi de Alverstan et Willelmi de Bulmer . . . . di mar.

the offence; they throw themselves on the King's mercy and are fined
the sums mentioned in the fine rolls of Michaelmas, 1348.

The Jury also present that every time that Ebberston township is
charged with imperial taxation, for instance, when it is charged with ^5
for the fifteenth, Sir Robert de Scarborough, who is tenant of part of
the township, ought to pay 6s or 7s for his share. But he refuses to pay
anything, and the rest of the township have to make up the difference.

Hugh de Nevill is indicted, for that whilst he was bailiff of Pickering,
under colour of his office, he arrested one Robert the Dyer, lately
residing in Ebberston, bound his hands as it he were a felon, though
he had not been indicted, and took from a horse, harness and
other goods and chattels to the value of 20s. Afterwards he entrusted
him to his servant to take to York, but when they reached Malton the
servant let his prisoner escape.

From Hugh de Neville, late bailiff of Pickering, fined for several
offences committed by him in Yorkshire, for which he was indicted in
the King's Bench and found guilty on his own confession, 6s 8d.
Sureties, William de Allerston and William de Bulmer.

220 APPENDIX.

id m. 8d. (Fines).

De Roberto de Scardeburgh milite de fine pro diversis transgres-
sionibus super ipsum coram domino Rege presentatis, unde per
cognicionem suam convictus est, per plegium Roberti Ra et Ricardi de
Cliderhowe .... xxs.

id m. 2 (Fines).
De Henrico de Ripplay subballivo de Pykeryng de fine pro eo quod
arestavit bona et catalla Roberti de Scardeburgh apud Ebreston unde
indictatus est et per cognicionem suam convictus per plegium Thome
Thurnyf et Roberti de Roston .... xld.

id m. 68. d.
Item presentant quod Henricus Rippelay subballivus de Pykeryng
arestavit blada Roberti de Scardeburgh militis apud Ebreston anno
regni Regis nunc vicesimo primo ad valenciam viginti marcarum pro
dampnis adjudicatis Roberto de Wyern et Thome de Thurnef in
quodam placito frisce forcie, videlicet centum solidis, et piedicta blada
detinuit sub arestamento predicto quousque idem Robertus predictos
centum solidos eis solvisset, qui eis adjudicati fuerunt in Wappentachio
de Pykeryng et hoc per preceptum Galfridi de Wryghtyngton et Thome
Brett tunc ballivorum de Pykeryng.

From Sir Robert de Scarborough, fined for several' offences for which
he was indicted in the King's Bench, and found guilty on his own con-
fession, jQ\. Sureties, Robert Wray and Richard de Clitherhoe.

From Henry de Rippley, sub-bailiff of Pickering, fined for having
seized goods and chattels of Sir Robert de Scarborough, at Ebberston,
for which he was indicted and found guilty on his own confession, 3s 4d.
Sureties, Thomas Thurnef and Robert de Rujston.

The indictment set forth that he seized corn in the year 1347, to the
value of ^13 6s 8d, to satisfy a judgment for £$ given in the Wapen-
take Court of Pickering in favour of Robert de Wyern and Thomas
de Thurnef, who brought an action of fresh force against Sir Robert.
This he did by the direction of Geoffrey de Wrightington and Thomas
Brett, then bailiffs of Pickering.

INQUISITION. 221

INQUISITION.

Inq : p: m: 8 Ed. II. N° 63.
Inquisicio capta apud Pikering die Sabbati proximo post festum
Sancti Michaelis anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edvvardi octavo
coram Johanne de Eure Eschaetore domini Regis ultra Trentam per
sacramentum Willelmi Thornef, Petri de Nevill, Willelmi de Roston,
Johannis de la Chimene, Johannis Sateman,* Willelmi de Nevill,
Edmundi de Hasting, Johannis de Bulmere, Rogeri de Pert, Willelmi
Barde, Johannis de Kilwardeby et Willelmi Russel juratorum ad
inquirendum quas terras et tenementa Willelmus de Vescy tenuit de
domino Rege in capite in dominico suo ut de feodo in Wapentachio
de Pikering die quo obiit et quantum de aliis, et per quod servicium,
et quantum terre ille valent per annum in omnibus exitibus, et quis
propinquior heres ejus sit, et cujus etatis ; qui dicunt super sacra-
mentum suum quod dictus Willelmus nichil tenuit de domino Rege in
capite in Wapentachio predicto die quo obiit ; et dicunt quod dictus
Willelmus tenuit manerium de Brumpton de feodo domini Johannis de
Mubray per servicum militare et valet per annum ijs ; et tenuit ibidem
in dominico sex carucatas terre et prati de feodo predicto per dictum
servicium et valent per annum xxxviij1' viijs : et tenuit ibidem unum
molendinum aquaticum de feodo predicto et valet per annum xH ; et
tenuit sex carucatas terre et prati in Saldene de feodo predicto que

An inquisition taken at Pickering on Saturday 5 Oct. 13 14 before John
de Eure, Escheator beyond the Trent, and a jury sworn to inquire as to
the lands which William de Vescy held in his demesne as of fee of the
King in chief in the Wapentake of Pickering on the day of his death,
and those that he held of others, and by what services, and their
yearly value altogether, and who and how old his next heir is.

Verdict : — He held nothing of the King in chief in the said Wapen-
take ; he held of the fee of Sir John de Mowbray by Knight service the
manor of Brompton, yearly value 2s ; six carucates of arable and meadow
in demesne, yearly value ^38 8s; a water-mill ^10 ; six carucates of
arable and meadow in Sawdon in the hands of free tenants holding by
Knight service; twenty-eight cottages there ^1 18s 4d ; a piece of
* The inquisition is torn, and the name is not quite clear.

222 APPENDIX.

sunt in manibus libere tenendum, et tenent per servicium militare ; et
tenuit ibidem xxviij cotagia de eodem feodo que valent per annum
xxxviij5 iiijd ; et tenuit ibidem unam placeam terre et valet per annum
vjd ; et tenuit ibidem boscum qui vocatur Ayclif in Trucedall in
separali de dicto feodo per dictum servicium, unde herbagium valet
per annum xxxs; et tenuit ibidem situm duorum grangiorum cum
columbariis et quatuor tofta et septem bovatas terre et prati de
Comite Lancastrie in socagio et bondagio, et valent per annum
vijH xiiijs xjd ob preter xxiijs qui assignantur Isabelle de Welle de Vescy
nomine dotis de dictis tenementis ; et tenuit ibidem de dicto Comite
tres carucatas et septem bovatas terre et prati in socagio que sunt in
manibus libere tenencium et reddunt per annum lijs vd ob, quos pre-
dicts Willelmus de Vescy solvit Castro de Pikering ; et tenuit ibidem
v tofta que sunt in manibus libere tenencium et reddunt per annum
pro omnibus servicus ijs iijd ; et tenuit in Snaynton et Westhorp in
Brumpton in dominico ix tofta et ix bovatas terre et prati de feodo
Rogeri le Bygod per servicium militare et valent per annum vijH iiijs ;
et tenuit ibidem sex carucatas et sex bovatas terre et prati de eodem
feodo que sunt in manibus libere tenencium et tenent per servicium
militare; item tenet in Kekesgate* unum toftum de dicto feodo et
valet per annum ijs ; et dicunt quod situs ecclesie de Brumpton est de
feodo predicti Rogeri, et sex bovate terre que sunt de dote vidue [?]
sunt de feodo dicti domini Johannis de Mubray ; item tenuit in

land there 6d ; Aycliffe Wood in Troutsdale in severalty, yearly value
of the grazing £ i 10s. He held of the Earl of Lancaster in socage
and bondage the site of two barns with dovecotes, four tofts and
seven oxgangs of arable and meadow, yearly value £7 14s n^d,
beyond £1 3s od assigned out of such tenements by way of dower
to Isabella de Welle de Vescy; three carucates and seven oxgangs
of arable and meadow in the hands of free tenants paying jQz 12s 5|d
a year, which William de Vescy paid over to Pickering Castle ; five
tofts in the hands of free tenants paying yearly 2s 3d for all services.
He held in demesne by Knight service of the fee of Roger le
Bygod, nine tofts and nine oxgangs of arable and meadow in Snainton
and Westhorpe, yearly value £7 4s ; six carucates and six oxgangs
of arable and meadow there in tne hands of free tenants holding by
Knight service ; one toft in K gkesgate 2s. The site of the Church
of Brompton is in the fee of Roger le Bygod, and six oxgangs of
arable, part of the widow's dower, are in the fee of Sir John de
Mowbray.

* I cannot identify this place, but it may be connected with Kekemarsh.
See p. 133.

INQUISITION. 223

Roston unam bovatam terre cum pertinenciis de Thoma filio Walteri
per servicium xviijd per annum de feodi Petri de Brus et valet per
annum xiijs iiijd ; et dicunt quod omnes terre et tenementa cum suis
pertinenciis valent per annum in omnibus exitibus de claro lxxH vjs ixd ;
et dicunt quod dictus Willelmus de Vescy non obiit seisitus de pre-
dicts tenementis in dominico suo ut de feodo set de feodo talliato ;
quia Antonius quondam Episcopus Dunelmensis fuit seisitus de pre-
dicts tenementis in dominico suo ut de feodo, et inde feoffavit
Willelmum de Vescy tenendum sibi et heredibus de corpore suo
exeuntibus de capitalibus dominis feodi per servicia inde debita et
consueta, et si contingat quod dictus Willelmus obierit sine herede de
corpore suo exeunte, quod dicta tenementa remanerent Willelmo de
Vescy de Kildare tenenda sibi et heredibus suis de corpore suo pro-
creatis, et si idem Willelmus obierit sine herede de corpore suo
exeunte tunc post decessum dicti Willelmi de Kildare omnia dicta
tenementa integre remanerent rectis heredibus Willelmi de Vescy
senioris ; et dicunt quod dictus Willelmus de Vescy de Kildare obiit
sine herede de corpore suo exeunte ; et dicunt quod totaliter ignorant
quis sit propinquior heres dicti Willelmi de Vescy senioris. Item dicunt
quod ilia pars bosci de Trucedal versus austrum de cujus feodo sit
ignorant ad presens ; et dicunt quod omnes tenentes Comitis Lancas-
trie et Johannis de Mubray debent ibidem cum averiis suis communi-
care et capiunt estoveria sua in predicta parti bosci predicti. In
cujus etc.

He held in Ruston one oxgang of arable of Thomas, son of Walter,
at the service of is 6d a year of the fee of Peter Bruce, yearly value

13s 4d-

Total value of the above, ^70 6s od. William de Vescy was
seized of the above in fee tail since Anthony,* Bishop of Durham,
was seized thereof in fee, and granted them to William de Vescy
and the heirs of his body, with remainder to William de Vescy of
Kildare and the heirs of his body, with remainder to the right heirs
of William de Vescy the elder. William de Vescy of Kildare died
without issue, and they are entirely ignorant who is the next heir of
William de Vescy the elder. Further, they say that they do not
know in whose fee the southern part of Troutsdale Wood is, for
both the tenants of the Earl of Lancaster and of John de Mowbray
ought to have common of pasture and take estovers there.

* This was probably only a conveyancing device for the purpose of creating an
entail, and does not show that the Bishop ever had any interest in the lands ;
although the Bishop gave Alnwick and the Vescy property in Northumberland to
the Percies.

224 APrENDIX.

ACCOUNTS.

Accounts Exch. Q.R. Bdle 379.N0 17.

iij jour Daugst a Pikering. Paie a Wille Honte venour le Roi de don
par nunciacion le dit Harsyk xxs ; paie a Anneys la femme Roger de
Mar porteur de la chaumbre de don xs : paie a Guiloct de la Pittere
vadlet de la chaumbre ma dame le Roine de don xxs ; paie a Dyton
Waweyn vadlet Robert Waweyn, qui porta lettres au Roi de dit Robert
de don ijs ; paie a Johan fuitz Ibote de Pykering qui sewa le Roi tout
un jour quant le Roi chacea a cerf en la chace de dit Pikeryng de don
par comaundement xs ; paie a Wauter de Semere mariner gardein de la
nief dont Coek atte Wose feust mestre, apelle la Magdeleyne, de doun
par les meyns Johan Harsyk resceivaunt les deniers de lui bailler xxs
.... iiij11 ij.

xxiij jour Daugst a Egynton sur la more de Blakho. Paie a
Monsieur Roger de Felton chivaler de la chaumbre le Roi pour paier
sa raunscon en Escoce quant il fuist pris a Ryvaux en la compaignie le
Conte de Rychemond en le moys Doctobre Ian xvj de don par les
meins Johan Harsyk liverant au dit Monsieur Roger les deners en la
presence le Roi mesmes .... cu.

3 August, 1323, at Pickering. Paid to William Hunt, the King's
huntsman, by way of gift at the direction of Harsike — £1 ; to Agnes,
wife of Roger de Mar, porter of the chamber, gift — 10s : to Guillot de
la Pittere, groom of the Queen's chamber, gift— ,£1 ; to Dighton
Wawayn, valet of Robert Wawayn, carrying letters from his master to
the King, gift — 2s ; to John, son of Ibote, of Pickering, who followed
the King a whole day when he hunted the stag in Pickering Chase, gift
by order — 10s; to Walter de Seamer, mariner, keeper of the ship
called the Magdalen, of which Cook atte Wose was master, a gift, the
money being given to John Harsike to give him — £1. £4 2s.

23 August, at Egginton, on Blakey Moor. Paid to Sir Roger de
Felton, Knight of the King's chamber, for his ransom at the time
when he was taken by the Scots at Rievaulx in company with the Earl
of Richmond, in October, 1322, a gift by the hands of John Harsike,
who delivered the money to Sir Roger in the King's presence. ^100.

ACCOUNTS. 225

xxvij jour Daugst a Grenehou sur la More de Blakho. Paie a William
fuitz Thomas forester de doun par nunciacion J Harsyk vs ; paie a
Monsieur Guiles Beauchamp chivaller de la chaumbre le Roi de don
xx marcs; paie a Emound Dorney palfreiour le Roi qui sewa toute
foiz le Roi quant il chacea de don xxs xiiij11 xjs viijd.

Darrein jour Daugst a Glascowollehous. Paie a Hernest corour
Monsieur Robert del Idle qui porta lettres au Roi de donvjsviijd;
paie a daunz Thomas de Broghton moine de Rivaux pur li acchater un
abyte de don xs xvjs viijd.

Primer jour de Semptembre [sic] au Chastel de Wherlton. Paie a
William de Donestable page de la chambre mande de Wherlton a
Cowick a la Dame la Despenser ove une blaunche leverere grosse des
chiels pur puture en alant par iij jours — iijd et pur les gages dit William
alant et revenant par vj jours xijd ; paie a Robyn Cole fevre le Roi pur
carbon, fer et autres diverses choses qil avoit achate par comand le
Roi dount il moustre au Roi les parcelles et paie ceo jour par comand
le Roi — iiijs ; paie a Robert de la Vacherye et William Tonel garsons
des foresters quant le Roi mist ces reyz per prendre cheverelles en le
Park de Wherleton — ijs; paie en le dit Park a Johan de Bynnham
hermyte de Ryvaux de don — xijd.

A Anneys la Rede et Alis de Wherlton chauntantz devant le Roi de

27 August, at Greenhow, on Blakey Moor. Paid to William, son of
Thomas, forester, gift at the direction of John Harsike — 5s ; to Sir
Giles Beauchamp, Knight of the King's chamber, a gift — ^13 6s 8d ;
to Edmund Dorney,* the King's palfreyman, who always followed the
King when he hunted — £1. ^14 11s 8d.

31 August, at Glascowollehouse.f Paid to Ernest, running footman
of Sir Robert del Idle, who carried letters to the King, a gift — 6s 8d ;
to Dan Thomas de Broghton, monk of Rievaulx, to buy him a coat, a
gift— 10s. 16s 8d.

1 September, at Whorlton Castle. Paid to William de Dunstable,
page of the chamber, sent from Whorlton to Cowick to the Lady
Despenser, with a white greyhound heavy in whelp for its keep three
days going there, 3d, and for William's wages going and returning, six
days — is ; to Robin Cole, the King's smith, for charcoal, iron and
other things that he bought at the King's order, the particulars whereof
he showed the King, paid this day by the King's order — 4s; to Robert
of the Cowhouse and William Tonel, foresters' servants, when the
King set his nets to take roedeer in Whorlton Park — 2s ; paid in the
said Park to John de Binham, hermit of Rievaulx, a gift — is ; to
Agnes the Redhaired and Alice de Whorlton, singing of Simon de
* [?] Dawney. f I can identify few of these places.

VOL. III., N.S. Q

226 APPENDIX.

Monsieur Simoun* de Montfort et autres chaunsons de don — iiijs ; item
a petyt Coek fuitz Coek atte Wose mariner mande de Wherlton a Noef
• Chaustel sur Tyne pur quere le dit Coek et Roger Catour mariners
illoqs imprisonez de les faire venir a Roi de don pur ces despenses — ijs.
.... xiiijs iijd.

Jourf de Septembre a Rychemound. . . . Item livere a Andreu
Rosekyn serjant le Roi sur acompte a Lokynton enpris Pikeryng — cs
dount il acompta en presence le Roi ceo jour por xxvj pieres de menue
corde, pris de chescune pere xijd, — xxvjs, por lxix peres de greindre
corde, pris de la pere xiijd, — lxxiiijs ixd, et pur cariage des ditz cordes de
Skardeburgh tantqe Pykering — xijd achatez par comandement le Roi
pur faire reys pur prendre cerfs parla ou le Roi passe.

Jour de Septembre illoqs. Paie a Wille Venour le Roi de don
porceqe Monsieur Hugh| recorda devant le Roi qe le dit Wille li avoit
sui tout le jour par montaynes et valleys quant il chacea au Roi
cerfs — xxs.

xxvij jour de Septembre a Skypton .... Paie par commandement

Montfort and other songs before the King, a gift — 4s, to little Cook,
son of the Cook atte Wose, mariner, sent from Whorlton to Newcastle-
on-Tyne to seek the said Cook and Roger Cator, mariners imprisoned
there, and to bring them to the King, a gift for his expenses — 2 s

14s 3d-

September, at Richmond. Delivered to Andrew Rosekin, the
King's sergeant, ^5 on his account rendered at Lockton, near Picker-
ing, in the King's presence, namely, 26 stone of small cord at is a
stone — £1 6s, 69 stone of thick cord at 13d a stone — ^3 14s 9d, and
carriage of the cord from Scarborough to Pickering — is, bought by the
King's order for nets to take deer on his journey.

September, at the same place. To William, the King's hunter, §
a gift because Sir Hugh told the King that William had followed him
a whole day over hill and dale when he hunted stags for the King

* Amongst the Harl. MSS. (No. 2,253, Arts- 23> 24) triere are preserved two
songs relating to Simon de Montfort.

+ The date is sewn up.

t Accounts Exch. Q.R. Bdle 379, No. 4, contains an account by Hugh Despencer
the younger of expenses incurred by him in various counties, hunting game for the
King, from July to the end of October, 1323.

§ This might possibly be William Twici, the author of the treatise mentioned at
Vol. II., N.S., p. xxxvii.

ACCOUNTS. 227

le Roi a Lorchon sewer [?] pur augmone qe le Roi dona a Pykering
iijd.

Paie a dit Peres* sur les dites overaignes daprist . sa acompte par
comandement le Roi par les meins frere Johan moigne de Ryvaux
portant au dit Peres les deners a Glascowollehouse en la more de
Blakehow le darrein jour Daugst — vj11 xiijs iiijd.

Accounts Exch. Q.R. Bdle 387 N° 9. 8 Ed. III.

xxvj die Maii. Elemosina — Domino Waltero de London, Elemosinario
Regis, pro putura C pauperum in honore festi de Corpore Christi de
speciali elemosina Regis per manus Henrici clerici sui apud Pikering
xxvj die Maii — xijs vjd ; eidem pro sumpcione galee Regis sex vicibus
in hastiludio de Wodestok, in torniamento de Novo Mercato una vice
et in hastiludio de Brustwyk alia vice pro qualibet vice vs de speciali
elemosina Regis — xls, eidem pro decima de Dxxxj avibus de ripa pro
qualibet decima iijd de consimili elemosina Regis — xiijs iijd, et pro
decima de clvij heronibus et v egretz pro qualibet decima vjd de con-
simili elemosina — viijs.

Dona . . . Johanni le Harpour Citharanti coram Rege apud Garton
de dono Regis ibidem, eodem die — dimidiam marcam ; Johanni Pulter
et Willelmo Pope presentanlibus domino Regi ex parte domini

26 September, at Skipton. Paid, by order of the King, to Lorchon
Sewer [?] alms distributed by the King at Pickering — 3d.

Paid to Sir Peter for the said operations comprised in his account by
the King's order, brother John, monk of Rievaulx, carrying the money
at [? from] Glascowellhouse, in Blakey Moor, to Sir Peter, the last day
of August — £6 13s 4d.

1334.

26 May, Alms — to Sir Walter de London, King's almoner, for food
for 100 poor on the feast of Corpus Christi at Pickering, at the hands
of his clerk Henry — 12s 6d ; to the same on putting on [?] the King's
helmet six times in the jousts at Woodstock, once in the tournament at
Newmarket, and once in the jousts at Brustwick, 5s a time by special
alms from the King — £2 ; to the same for tithe of 531 waterfowl at 3d
the tithe, like alms from the King — 13s 3d; and for tithe of 157
herons and 5 egrets at 6d the tithe, like alms— 8s.

Gifts. To John the Harper, playing before the King at Garton, a
gift from the King the same day — 6s 8d ; to John Poulterer and
William Pope presenting to the King on the part of their master,

* i.e., Sir Peter de Pulford, clerk, for repairs at Flaxfleet.

Q 2

228 APPENDIX.

Roberti de Tauton duos hobinos de dono Regis nomine feodi sui — j
marcam.

Primo die Junii [N.B. at Beverley] Dona .... Roberto de Bretgate
ducenti domino Regi unum canem suum amissum apud Pikeryng de
dono Regis ibidem eodem die — dimidiam marcam.

Robert de Towton, two hobbies,* a gift from the King by way of fee

— 13s 4d-

1 June [at Beverley], given to Robert de Bridgegate, leading to
the King a hound lost at Pickering, a gift the same day — 6s 8d.

* The Hobby was a name used both for a small horse and also for a kind of hawk,
see Halliwell, s.v.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 229

ANCIENT PETITIONS.

Ancient Petition, N° 10,022.*

A nostre seignur le Roi e a son counseil moustre Rauf de Kirketon
qe la ou sire Roger de Moubray ly dona pur son service la foresterie
de Hovingham a tenir a terme de sa vye, pernaunt vynt souz pur une
robe e cink quarters de furment par an e de [qe] fut seisi par la
chartre le dit Roger, jeqes a taunt qe sire Johan de Lythegreynes
eschetur nostre seignur le Roi seisist en la main le Roi totes les terres
le dit Roger e ly osta de cele foresterie. Par quei il prye pur Dieux
la grace nostre seignur le Roi qe remedie ly soit fet de ceste chose.

[Endorsed] Le Roi le voet bien qil eit le purport de sa chartre.

Ancient Petition, N° 8,728.
A lur lige seignur le Rey de Engleterre mustrent ses homes de sa
vile de Skartheburgh ke Wyllame Wythre e Roger Brabazun vos
Justices del eyre de la foreste de Pickeringge a la requeste Sire Edmund
vostre frere unt pris a tort de eus x livres a celes ke il purrunt estre
en pees, e jalemenis grevousement les unt distreint de jour en jour
pur fere les venir e pleder hors de vostre Burg a la vile de Pikeringge

The petition to King and Council of Ralph de Kirkton. Sir Roger
de Mowbray by deed granted to him for his services the office of
forester at Hovingham to hold for his life, receiving 20s for a coat and
five quarters of wheat a year. He was so seised until Sir John de Lith-
graines, escheator of the King, seized all Sir Roger's lands into the
King's hands and deprived Ralph of his office, wherefore he prays for
God's sake that the King will be favourable to him and see that the
matter is put right.

[Endorsed.] The King desires that he should have what the deed
purports to grant him.

The petition to the King of the men of Scarborough alleged that
William Wither and Roger Brabazon appointed at the request of Lord
Edmund, the King's brother, wrongfully took from them ^10 to leave
them in peace, and nevertheless grievously distrained them from day to
day to make them come and plead beyond the Borough at Pickering
* Compare with this Vol. II., N.S., p. 231.

23O APPENDIX.

encontre la chartre le noble Rey Henri vostre pere. E autrement ke
unices ne soleient en nuly tems puis la confettum de la chartre, sicom
le record e le proces desuz vostre seal des autres Justices en autres
eyres entestmoigne, ke autres Justices sunt venuz en la vile pur pleder
les plez de la foreste de Pikeringge, aussi bien com vos Justices de plez
de la corune, e de plez* de terre, e si vus soeffrez ke vos homes seient
trez hors de vostre Burg a pleder encontre la chartre le noble Rey
Henry vostre Pere, la quele il unt pleinement use deskes ensa aussi
bien en plez de la foreste com en plez de terre ou de la corune, ou
autrement ke ne soleient, les uns serroient reniz par malice de verders
e de foresters, les autres utlagez encontre les fraunchises ke vostre
pere le noble Rey Henry lur granta par sa chartre, e si serreit vostre
Burg destrut e vos homes ennentyz par la foreste de Pikeringge. E
estre ceo vusf perdriez les fins e les raunzuns e les autres profiz les
queus vus avez eu deskes ensa en toz les eyres. Purquey il vus prient
com lur lige seignur si vus plest lur estat meintenir e sustenir, e ke
vus del lur prengez com de vos homes a vostre volunte, ke autres ne
prengent a tort parquey vostre vile enseit destrute. Ebor. Skartheburg.
[Endorsed] Peticio hominum de Skartburgh. Coram domino Rege,
coram consilio domini Regis alias in rotulo.

Town contrary to the Charter of Henry III. Never has this been the
custom since the date of the Charter, as is proved by the record and
process under the royal seal of other Justices in other Eyres, who came
into the town [of Scarborough] to plead the pleas of Pickering forest
as other Justices to plead pleas of the crown and pleas of land. If the
King permitted his men to be drawn outside the Borough to plead con-
trary to the Charter which has clearly been enjoyed up to the present
time as well in pleas of the forest as in pleas of land and of the crown,
otherwise than custom has been, some would be ruined by the malice
of the verderers and foresters and others outlawed contrary to the
franchises granted in the Charter by King Henry III. So the Borough
would be destroyed and the inhabitants brought to nought through
Pickering Forest. Moreover the King would lose the fines, ransoms,
and other profits which up to now he has enjoyed in all eyres.
Wherefore they pray their liege lord at his good pleasure to maintain
and uphold their estate, and to take from them at will what he takes
from his other tenants, lest others take wrongfully from them and the
town be destroyed,

The petition of the men of Scarborough. In the King's Bench.

In the King's Council elsewhere in the roll.

* Blotted.

t Because, at Pickering, these fines belonged to the Earls of Lancaster.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 23 1

Petitiones in Parliament*).* a. d. 1290. N° 115.
Homines de Chardeboht qui per cartam Regis non debent extra
villam respondere petunt quod Justiciarii Domini Edmundi Fratris
Regis qui distringunt eos ad respondendum apud Pikering de articulis
foreste et eos amerciarunt ad xl li. quia non venerunt ibidem ubi non
solebant venire, et amerciamenta in utroque itinere ad opus Regis
habere ; et nunc aliter facere compelluntur.

Petitiones in Parliamento. a.d. 1278. 6 Edw. I. N° 29.

Ces sunt les peticions Emon devant nostre seignur le Rey.

[The first relates to the Wapentake of Wirksworth.]

Derechef le Roy soen pere luy dona la forest de Pikeringe ove les
apurtenaunces ; e pur ceo qe genz foreyns fount souvent leinz trespas
de vert et de veneson dount il ne poet aver les amendes saunz ayde de
la Court le Roy ne des autres choses qe lemplede en Eyre des
Justices de Forest il prie soen seignur le Roy ke il luy ordeyne certain
estat coment il eyt le amendes e le prou qe a luy apente.

Derechef prie ke son seignur le Roy voile mander par ses lettres a
aukuns tenaunts del honour de Lancastre e de West Wales e de
aylours dount le nouns sount par desuz ke eus luy facent homages les
queus homages le Roy soen pere luy dona, ce est asaver auteus lettres

The men of Scarborough, who by the King's Charter are exempt
from answering outside their town, pray that the Justices of Lord
Edmund, the King's brother, who are distraining them to answer as to
the articles of the forest at Pickering, and are amercing them at £40
for not having come there [may be restrained]. They were not wont
to come, and the fines in both Eyres should be levied to the King's
use ; but now they are being forced to act contrary to their custom.

The petitions of Lord Edmund before the King.

Henry III. granted to him Pickering Forest, but strangers often
commit offences of vert and venison therein, and without the help of the
King's Court he can get no compensation, nor can he of the other
matters which are impleaded in Forest Eyres. He prays that he may
be granted such an estate that he may have the fines and the amount
that belongs to him.

Further he prays the King to direct by writ certain tenants whose
names are written beneath of the Honor of Lancaster, of West Wales
and elsewhere, to do homage to him. Henry III. granted to him the
homages of them, and he asks for the same writ that Henry III.
granted to him. The following hold elsewhere in chief of the King

* I do not find this or the next among the ancient petitions.

232 APPENDIX.

come son pere lui fist. E nomement de ceux qe tenent aylours in
chief del Roy par que le Roi ne serrett riens pardaunt, ceo est asaver —
[tenants in Lancashire]— del Conte le Marescall, Sire Johan de Vescy e
del heyre Sire Henry de Percy que sunt tenaunz del honour de
Pikeringe ....

Secunda peticio de foresta ponatur in respectum usque adventum
Domini Cancellarii.

Ad terciam peticionem de homagiis concordatum est quod de
homagiis de quibus non fuit in seisina tempore Henrici Regis patris
nichil capiat, neque de releviis solutis Domino Regi nichil capiat : set
non cessent districciones.

Ancient Petitions, N° 5,466.
[Extracts.]
Ces sunt les moustraunces sire Emon devant nostre seignour le Rey.

[The first part again refers to Wirks worth.]
Dautre part come nostre seignour le Rei ait fait replevir au Cunte
le Mareschal taunt qe a ce parlement la baillie quil a de la garde de une
partie de la forest de Pykering, la quele fu prise en la mayn le Rey par
agard de ses justices assignez a pleider les plez de la dite forest pur le
wast et la destruction quil troverent fait par le Cunte et les soens en
la dite baillie, mon sire Emon prie que la baillie soit reprise en la main
le Rei e que les justices puissent parfaire lur office ; e se le Cunte

and the King is to lose nothing by the grant of the writ ; that is to say
the Earl Marshall, Sir John de Vescy and the heir of Sir Henry de
Percy, who are tenants of the Honor of Pickering.

The second petition as to the forest is respited until the return of
the Chancellor.

The third petition as to homages is compromised. The Earl is to
fail as to the homages of which he was not in seisin in his father's
lifetime, and as to reliefs paid to the King, but the distraints will not
cease.

Another petition of Lord Edmund.

As the King has caused the Earl Marshall to replevy up to the time
of this Parliament the bailiwick which he holds to keep a part of
Pickering Forest, which was by judgment given by Justices of the
forest seized into the King's hand for waste and destruction which
they found to have been done by the Earl and his men in the said
bailiwick, Lord Edmund prays that the bailiwick may be seized
again in the King's hands, and that the Justices may perform their
duty. If the Earl maintains that wrong has been done to him by the

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 233

voulle dire que tort li soit fait par les justices, soit leur fait vehu, e se
il hi ait que adrescer par le Re)' e sun conseil soit ce adresce. Resey-
siatur balliva replegiata comitis in manum Regis et dicatur Justiciariis
quod procedant.

[Endorsed] Pur mon seignor le Rey.

Ancient Petitions, N° 14,776.

Ces sunt les mustrauces al Chaunceler.

Por ce qe le Rei a grante a Sire Emond qe une enqueste seit prise
de saver si Alein le Fiz Johan, Laurence de Neutone et Johan Blanke
Foresters Sire Emond a Pykeringe qui sunt rettez de la mort un Johan
Cokewald, rette de plusors mesfez et de lareimz, trouverent meimes
celi Johan mesfesant en la forest avantdite et ensuant le occistrent
com celui qui a la paes ne se voleit atacher si com il dient, et
ou par felonie et saut porpense, si prie al chanceler qui il comande
le bref.

Quod ponantur in prisonam et postmodum inquiratur per vicecomitem
et coronatorem et remittatur Regi.

Et por ce qe le Chaunceller voille comander bref al Tresorer de fere
aver a Justices pledaunz les trespas de la foreste de Pykeringe les roules
del derrein heire Sire Robert de Nevile de meimes la foreste por aver
avisement a lur plez.

Justices, let their act be examined into [? veu seen], and he has only
to apply to the King and Council and it will be put right.

Let the Earl's bailiwick* which was replevied be seized again into
the King's hands, and let the Justices be told to proceed.

The Chancellor is to direct a writ inasmuch as the King has granted
to Lord Edmund that an inquest be taken to ascertain whether Alan
Fitzjohn, Lawrence de Newton, and John White, Foresters of Lord
Edmund, at Pickering, accused of the death of John Coxwold (himself
accused of many misdeeds and thefts) found the same John poaching
in the forest and forthwith killed him because he would not let himself
be peaceably arrested as he ought, or whether they did it feloniously
and of malice aforethought.

Let them be imprisoned and afterwards let inquiry be made by the
Sheriff and Coroner and certified to the King.

The Chancellor is asked to direct a writ to the Treasurer to produce
to the Justices trying offences in the Forest of Pickering, the rolls of
the last forest Eyre there, namely of Sir Robert de Neville, to consider
the pleas before them.

♦ See Vol. II., N.S., pp. 35"45-

234 APPENDIX.

Mandetur quod habeant rotulos ita quod restituantur citra Festum
Sci Johannis.

De* ce que les genz le Rey de la baillie Saint Brevel entren teinz la
fraunchise de Monemue de faire atachement de genz en autre manere
que hom a fait ga en ariere, qar nul atachement ne hy soleit unques estre
fait par autres que ceauz a cui la fraunchise estait, et de ce prie Sire
Emoy remedie. Scribatur similiter ballivo.

De autre part mon Sire Emoy prie le chauncellor quil voille comander
le bref de lescheyte de Thomas de Flyxtonf en la vile de Skaleby en la
cunte de Euerwyk. Fiat.

Ancient Petitions, N° 2,772.
A son seigneur le Roy e a son conseil mustre Thomas Conte de Lan-
castre qe par la ou ses gentz de Esingwold e de Hoby sont de aunciene
demeisne le Roi, e eus e lour auncestres soleyent avoir a deyvent
renable sustenance com en housbote e heybote du boys en la foreste
notre Seigneur le Roi de Galtres, la viegnent le minystres nostre
Seigneur le Roi par commandement Sire Robert de Clifford, Justice de
la foreste avantdite, e eus desturbent qil ne puissent renable sustenance
de housbote e heybote en lavantdiste foreste selonc la fourme qe eus
e lour auncestres soleyent et deyvent avoir du temps dount memorie ne
curt, cest a savoir la ou eus soleyent avoir trente cheynes par an pur

Order is given that they have the rolls and return them by the 24th
of June.

The People of the King's bailiwick of St. Brevel enter into the
liberty of Monmouth to arrest folk otherwise than formerly was done ;
for no arrest ought ever to be made except by the Lord of the Liberty;
wherefore Lord Edmund prays a remedy. Let a like letter be written
to the bailiff.

Further Lord Edmund prays the Chancellor to order a writ of
escheat as to Thomas de Flixton in the township of Scalby. Let
it be done.

A Petition to the King and Council by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster.

The men of Easingwold and Huby are of the King's ancient demesne
and ought to have housebote and hedgebote in the Forest of Galtres.
But the officers of the King, by command of Sir Robert de Clifford,
Justice of the Forest, came and prevented them having their housebote
and hedgebote in the manner in which they and their ancestors from
time immemorial used and ought to have it, that is to say thirty oaks
a year for housebote, without reckoning the small underwood for

* This relates, of course, to quite a distinct part of the Lancaster estates,
t See Vol. II., N.S., p. 46.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 235

housbote, santz autre menue boscage pur heybote, la sont eus mys a
quinze cheynes par an par comandement Sire Robert de Clifford e
alafoyz a dys cheynes par an, dont le dist Conte est en poynt de perdre
sa franchise e ses gentz lour droit livere, dont il prie qe remedie en soit
fet pur ly e pur ses gentz avantdites.

Dautre part le dist Conte prie remedie de ceo qe ses gentz avantdites
sont desturbes par les ministres no'stre Seigneur le Roi de lour chemyn
en la diste foreste de Galtres, cest asavoir de Esingwald jesqes a Hoby,
de Hoby jesqes a Euerwyk e de lour chemyn vers chescone autre ville
encontre la fourme qe eus e lour auncestres soleyent e devient avoir e
user du temps dont memorie ne curt ; issint sont desturbez qe eus ne
poent avoir lour droit chemyn santz greve redempcion fere a la volente
les ministres de la forest avantdite dont le dist Conte prie remedie qil
ne soit disherite ne ses gentz desturbez de lour droit.

[Endorsed] Scribatur Roberto de Clifford Justiciario foreste per
breve de Cancellaria quod desistat et suis ministris desistere precipiat ab
hujusmodi inquietacionibus, impedimentis et graviminibus [sic] et
permittat eos capere hussebuot et haybot ac eos uti itineribus in foresta
et per medium foreste libere absque impedimento quolibet sicut ante-
cessors sui et ipsi usi fuerunt ab antiquo, sic se habeant in premissis
quod ad Regem querela amplius non perveniat de premissis.

Ancient Petition, N° 15,315.
Al Chancellier nostre Seigneur le Roi mustrent les poures gentz le
Conte de Lancastre de Esingwold et de Hoby qui sont des [? aunciene]

hedgebote, and now by the command of Sir Robert de Clifford they
are reduced to sometimes fifteen oaks and sometimes ten oaks a year.
The Earl is on the point of losing his franchise and the people their
right of livery.

Furthermore the King's officers prevent them from making their way
through the forest from Easingwold to Huby, and from Huby to York
and towards every other village, unless they pay a heavy and arbitrary
ransom, although they and their ancestors from time immemorial used
to enjoy such a road.

[Endorsement.] Let a writ from the Chancery direct Robert de Clifford,
Justice of the Forest, and his officers to desist from their unlawful dis-
turbances and to permit the men to take their housebote and hedgebote
and use their roads in the forest and pass freely without interruption
through the forest as they and their ancestors of old used to do, so
that no complaint about these matters may hereafter reach the King's
ears.

The petition to the Chancellor of the Earl of Lancaster's poor folk

236 APPENDIX.

demeines le Roi et sont menantz en la foreste de Galtres, que par la ou
il deivent estre quites de chiminage selonc la chartre de la [? foreste] en
la baillie ou il sont menantz, la venent Roger de Raskilf et Robert de
Burgh qui gardent la bailie de Esingwold en la [? dite] foreste desouz
Johan de Wyresdale et unt levez de eux xls et plus pur chiminage,
puis le confermement de la dite cartre [? et] par la ou il ne pernent de
foreine gent qui achatent bois en la forest fors que iiijd par an pur la
charette, la pernent [? de] eus iiijs par an quei quil carient ou blee, ou
busche ou carbun par la ou rien ne achatent en la foreste ; et en droit
[? la] novele custume que feust levee nadguers qe vij villes trovassent a
deux forestiers lor estover en manger et en [? boire], des queles vij villes
les iij sont ore hors de la foreste par la puralee, la chargent ore les
forestiers Esingwald e Hoby de lor porcion, et estre ceo de tant come
les iij villes avantdites furent avant chargees. Par quoi il prient pur
dieu que cestes choses soient redrescees et qe la verite de ceo puisse
estre enquise et quil peusseint estre mentenuz en lor auncien estat ou
mieuz, selonc la chartre de la foreste avantdite.

Ancient Petitions, N° 12.855.
A nostre seignour le Roi .... *gentz de sa seignourye de

in Easingwold and Huby, who are of the King's ancient demesne and
are residing in the forest of Galtres. By the Charter of the Forest
they ought to be quit of cheminage in the bailiwick where they are
residing, yet Roger de Raskelf and Robert de Burgh, keepers under
John de Wyresdale, of the bailiwick of Easingwold, in the forest, came
and levied £2 and more from them for cheminage after the confirma-
tion of the Charter. f Besides although they only take 4d a year for
each cart of a non-resident buying wood in the forest, yet the bailiffs
take from the residents 4s a year whatever they carry, corn, underwood
or charcoal, or although they buy nothing in the forest. Again in right
of the new custom lately established that seven townships should find
two foresters J in meat and drink, of which townships three are now by
the perambulation outside the forest, the foresters now charge Easing-
wold and Huby beyond their own share with what the three townships
were formerly charged with. Wherefore they pray for God's sake that
these matters may be put right, and that an inquiry may be made into
the truth of them, and that they may be kept in their former condition
or a better one in accordance with the Charter of the forest.
The petition to King and Council of the people within the lordship

* Much defaced, illegible, and torn.

t See Carta de Foresta, 9 Henry III. ; confirmed 29 Ed. I. See also Carta de
Foresta, 28 Ed. I.

t Again our old friend puture, always objected to as a modern custom.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 237

Pykering qe la ou lyst a chescun frank vendre et done ....
tpendent des chiefs seignours et toutz ses tenauntz de la seignourye
susdite .... use en temps de toutz Roys tauntqe il esteient destur-
bez nadgeres par Thomas jadis Counte de Lancaster .... grevouses
fines par enchesone susdite encountre commune lei et les usages du
maner de Pykering

A ce Sire la ou chescon seignour deit avoir les amendes des
brasceres deyntz son fee et de assisse emfreynt de cervoise et les
seignours [? des toutz fees deintz le seignourye] de Pykering les aveient
en temps de toutz Roys et de toutz seignours chescon de son tenauntz
et reseaunts deyns [? son fee taunt] qe le [? dit] Counte les vea et les
prist par sa souverayne seignourye encountre loi et usage [? E de ce
prient remedie].

A ce Sire la ou par commune lei et estatut nul fraunk home ne deit
estre menes a serment sauntz brief [? e les tenauntz de] la haute tenure
du maner de Pykering a ceo ne esteient menetz en temps des Roys
ne autres Seignours du maner de Pykering, [le Counte] de Lancastre a
ceo les mena par dures destresces et grevouses amercimentz en ches-
cune pleynt sauntz brief encountre loi et les usages du maner, et prient
remedie.

A ce Sire ou toutz les tenaunts qi tenent par meen du dite maner

of Pickering. Every free man may sell and give away his land to be
held of the chief lords, and all the tenants of the lordship have enjoyed
this right until lately when they were disturbed by Thomas, late Earl of
Lancaster, who set heavy fines upon them in respect thereof against
common law and the customs of the Manor of Pickering.

Every mesne lord* ought to have the fines of brewers and breach of
assize of beer within his fee, and the lords of all fees within the honor
of Pickering had them of their tenants and residents within their fees
in the times of all Kings and other Chief Lord, until the Earl denied
their right and took them by virtue of his chief lordship, contrary to
law and against the customs of the Manor of Pickering.

By common law and statute! no free man ought to be made to take
an oath except by .writ, and in the times of the Kings and other Chief
Lords, the tenants of high tenure in the Manor of Pickering have not
been wont to be so made, yet the Earl of Lancaster by hard distraints
and grievous fines so made them without a writ in every plaint against
the law and the customs of the manor.

And whereas, Sir, all the tenants who hold by mesne of the said

* See " Hist. Eng. Law," I., 569. In the North of England every man who has
tenants is apt to assert that he has the assize of beer over them as a common law
right. t See Statute of Marlborough, 52 Hen. III., sect. 22.

238 APPENDIX.

soleient et deyvent faire une venue a procheine Wapen[? tag] tenutz
apres la seint Michel et par aforcement de Court, nomement quant
prison est ajugger ou jugement en awere .... brief de dreit, Thomas
jadis Counte de Lancastre les destreynt venir afournir chescune juge-
ment qe fu delayez .... en en chescune pleynt sauntz brief encountre
les usages et autrement qe soleient venir en temps des Roys, et de ce
prient remedi.

A ce Sire ou chescun fraunk home purra avoir par lei et estatuit
atorne par brief de faire la seute pur lui a la court [? du seignour] de
qi il tent, et les tenauntz de la haute tenure de Pykering lour atornes
fesoient par briefs en la Wapentag de Pykering en temps du Roys et
toutz seignours du maner susdite taunt qe Thomas jadis Counte de

manor [ = all the tenants between whom and the lord of the manor
there is a mesne lord] were wont and ought to make one coming
[venue = coming = appearance] at the wapentake [i.e., the session of
the wapentake court] held next after Michaelmas [in every year], and
also [to make a coming, i.e., to attend there] for the afforcement
[ = strengthening] of the court when there is a prisoner to be judged
or a judgment in suspense [to be awarded] in a writ of right, Thomas,
late Earl of Lancaster, distrained them to come to furnish every
judgment .... in every plaint [even though that plaint were begun]
without writ, contrary to the usages and otherwise then they were wont
to come in the time of the kings [i.e., when the kings were the imme-
diate lords of the manor] and of this they pray remedy.*

Although by law and statute! every free man ought to have the
right to make his attorney by writ to do suit for him at the Court of
the Lord of whom he holds, and the tenants of the high tenure of
Pickering made their attornies by writs in the Wapentake Court of
Pickering in the times of the Kings and of all the chief Lords, yet

* Professor F. W. Maitland, who has been kind enough to give me this transla-
tion, has also added the following note : — " The complaint is of the exaction of undue
' suit of court ' from these tenants. I have seen other cases in which tenants assert
that they do not owe suit to every session of the Court, but are only bound to
attend once or twice a year, and also to appear when there is a thief to be hanged
[' quando latro est judicandus '] or when a writ of right is to be tried. Then the
Earl has been making them come to furnish (as doomsmen) any judgment which has
been delayed. If delayez is right, he seems to have made these folk attend whenever
a cause (albeit begun without writ) was adjourned, or 'stood over' for want of a
sufficiency of suitors to make a judgment.

" I have seen many tenants who acknowledge their liability to attend whenever a
writ of right comes to the court or a criminal is to be condemned. In such a case
there is royal justice to be done and many are bound to attend who refuse to appear
on other occasions."

t Statute of Merton, 20 Hen. III., sect. 10.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 239

Lancastre ne les soeffrist attorner .... come soleient, et prient
remedi.

A ce Sire ou chescun seignour deit par lei et usage avoir sa court de
son tenaunt et reseaunt qe est empledeez en autri court [? sil] la
demaund, en temps le dit Thomas Counte ne soeffrist nul seignour de
la seignourye susdite sa court avoir de ses lenaunts . . . . ne reseantz
[?] encountre lei et usage, et prient remedi.

Ancient Petitions, N° 7,095.
A nostre seignour le Roi et soen conseil moustrent ces tenauntz du
manoir de Skalleby qe est del auncien demaine nostre seignour le Roi
deynz sa seignourye de Pykering qe par la ou ses progenitours
granterent a lur auncestres et lur heyres le dit manoir de Skalleby ove
les apurtenauntz et appendaunz, cest assavoir eschetz, courtes, molins,
fines et amercimentz, rendaunt a Lescheker nostre seignour le Roi a
la fest de Saint Michel dan en an trente cink livres douze soutz pour
tuttes services a touz jours, la quel rent nostre seignour le Roi Henri
dona a monsr Edmund soen* frere, Count de Lancastre ove le manoir
de Pykering, apres qui morte Monsr Thomas soen filz entra enz le
sutditz manoir et rentes, in qi temps Richard de Skelton soen bailliff lur
osta de diz boves de terre, parcelle de la terre charge de lur dite rente,
et ensi le dit Richard lur osta de lur comune de pastur en lest partie
dun boys qest appelle Langdon, qest appurtenaunt a lur fraunk tene-

Earl Thomas would not suffer them to make such attornies, and they
pray for redress.

Although by law and custom every lord ought, if he demand it, to
hold his Court of his tenants and residents who are impleaded in the
Court of another, yet, in the time of Earl Thomas, he would not
suffer any lord to hold his Court of his tenants and residents against
law and custom. They pray redress.

The petition to King and Council of the tenants of the Manor of
Scalby, which is of ancient demesne and within the Lordship of Pickering.
The ancestors of the King granted to the ancestors of the tenants and
their heirs the manor of Scalby with the appurtenances, to wit, escheats,
courts, mills, fines and amercements, paying yearly at Michaelmas, at
the King's Exchequer, ^"35 12s for all services for ever, which rent
Henry III. granted to Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, together with the
manor of Pickering. After his death his son Thomas entered into
possession of the manor and rent, during whose time his bailiff, Richard
de Skelton, ousted them from ten oxgangs, parcel of the land charged
with the rent ; he also deprived them of their common of pasture in
* He was the son, not brother, of King Henry.

240 APPENDIX.

mentz du temps dount y nia meraor, de quoi ils prient remedie.
Quoad primam petitionem. Assignantur certi fideles ad inquirendum
super contends in petitione veritatem, et retornata inquisicione
inde ....

Ensi moustrent les susdites . . . . de Foulwode qest apurtenaunt
a lur fraunk tenement feust ajugge gaste en la darreine .... foreste
rechate, par quoi le dit boyse ne devereist mes estre denz regard ....
voluntez, la fumes par le dit Monsr Thomas et ses ministres
destourbez encountre la .... de quoi nous prioms remedi.

Quoad secundam petitionem. . . . Itineris in cancellaria quo viso
fiat ei justitia [Alexander?]* de Bergh prosequitur.

Ancient Petition, N° 249.
(Petitions in Parliament, a.d. 1321 and 1322, N° 73.)
A nostre seignur le Roi e a son counsail moustre e se pleint Nicholas
au Pount de Pikering qe Johan de Dalton jadys Baillife le Counte de
Lancastre a Pikering atort e par colour de son office mesme cesti
Nicholas prist en la vile de Pikering, e de la feste de Pentecost en Ian
du regne nostre seignur le Roi Edward qore est qe Dieu gard xij,
jesqes le Samadi procheyn devaunt la feste de Seinte Margarete pro-
cheyn suaunt a la meson le dit Johan en preson luy detient, e dit qe
mesme cesti Nicholas pur covatise de sa tere fu tenu a son seignur le

the east part of Langdale wood, which has been from time immemorial
appurtenant to their freeholds. They pray that the matter be
remedied.

[Endorsed.] Let an inquiry be made and the verdict returned.

In the lastf Forest Eyre Fullwood, [common in] which is appur-
tenant to their freeholds, was held to be waste and was ransomed so
that it ought not to be otherwise than within the regard, but the
tenants have been disturbed from enjoying their common by Earl
Thomas and his officers. They pray that this matter also be
remedied.

The petition to King and Council of Nicholas at the Bridge of
Pickering. John de Dalton, formerly bailiff of the Earl of Lancaster,
at Pickering, wrongfully, and under colour of his office, took Nicholas
in Pickering town and detained him in prison in his house from the
27th of May, 1319, to Saturday, the 14th of July next following, and,
out of greed for his land, said that Nicholas was bound to the Earl in
more than ;£io for many suits in arrear and other defaults.

* " d' " is the last letter.

t The petition is so illegible that I can only offer this paraphrase as the merest
conjecture.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 24.I

Counte pur divers suytes e divers defautes aderere en plus qen xH, par
la ou il fut en nul dener a derer, ne tenu au Count par nulle manere
de suyt, ne de service a derere, nen nul suite nen service fu a derere.
Par quei qe mesme cesti Johan lavantdit Nicholas fist bailler son terre
avaunt qil pout de sa gard e de sa presone aler, e sur ceo en la
Courte de Pikering encountre son gre fait fist fere a tort e encountre
la pees nostre seignur le Roi e as greves damages de mesme cesti
Nicholas de xl1'. Dount il prie remedie.
[Endorsed] Prosequatur in Cancellaria.

Ancient Petition, N° 266 (Pari. Pet. a.d. 132 i, N° 83.)
A nostre seignur le Roie son counseil mostre Johan de Thoucotes qe
come il tient un mees e une bove de tere in Thornton de Bemound
[sic ? Emound] de Hastinges par feute e le service de ijd par an pur
touz servicez. E a ceo tient deus boves de tere de Johan le fiz Alayn
en mesme la vile par le service de ijd par an pur touz servicez, les queuz
Emound et Johan le fiz Alayn lez aquitent de seut de Court a VVapentak
nostre seignur le Roi de Pikering, e la dite seute fount pur cestez
tenementz e altres come mene tenaunz entre nostre seignur le Roi e le
dit Johan de Thouecotes, les baillies de Pikering ly destreignent pur
seute fere al dit Wapentak de Pikering encountre ley et resoun. E de
ceo prie remedie.

[Endorsed] Habeat breve de medio versus eos qui eum acquietare
debent.

Yet there was no penny in arrear, nor was he bound to the Earl in any
manner of suit, nor was any suit or service in arrear. Wherefore this
John compelled Nicholas to surrender his land before he would release
him, and a deed [to this effect] was executed against his will in Pickering
Court wrongfully and against the King's peace to the damage of £40.

[Endorsed.] Let him proceed in Chancery.

The petition to King and Council of John de Tockets.* He
holds a house and an oxgang of land, in Thornton, of Edmund de
Hastings by fealty and a rent of 2d a year for all services, and also two
oxgangs of John, son of Alan, in the same township, by a rent of 2d
a year for all services, and the two mesne lords ought to acquit him
of suit at the Wapentake Court of the King at Pickering, and to
perform the suit in respect of those and other tenements. Neverthe-
less, the bailiffs of Pickering distrain him to perform suit at the Wapen-
take Court of Pickering. Wherefore he prays redress.

[Endorsed.] Let him have a writ of mesne against those who ought
to acquit him.

* Tockets, in the parish of Guisborough.

VOL. III., N.S. R

242 APPENDIX.

Ancient Petition, N° 10,204.

A nostre seignour le Roi et son Counseile fate a entendre qe le
Chaustell de Pykeryng et tote le honour et tote la foreste sunt
de la Corone et furent en la mayne de chescune Roi, jeskes
au temps le Roi Henry, Aell nostre seignour le Roi qor est qe Deu gard,
qe les dona au Count Simond de Mountfort* ensemblement ove
Esyngwold et Hoby, et apres la mort le dit Simond le dit Roi Henri
dona las ditz chaustell, honour, foreste et terres et tenementz a
Mousieur Emond son fiz a tenire jeskes a taunt qil luy oust purveu des
autres terres qe ne furent my de la Corone a la valyaunce des ditz
teres et tenementz ; et en tote ceo temps et tote temps devaunt dount
memore ne court fut Raufe de Bollebek et ses auncestres seneshales de
la dite foreste et foresters en fee et mist et demist foresters et verders,
et tient les attachementz cum apendisoit a Pykerying et en le Hay de
Scalkby, et respoundit au Roi des trespases de verde et de venison, et
avoit pur son servise les profites de engistementz, pounage, herbag et de
secke boys gisaunt et esceaunt par my la dite foreste forspris le Parkes
de Blandesby de qai le Roi enportite tote maners profistes. E apres le
decesse le dit Raufe de Bollebek entra un Raufe son fitz cum fitz et
heire, et fu senechale et forestere en fee cum ses auncestres furent

A petition to the King and Council informed them that Pickering
Castle and the honour and forest were part of the Crown Lands and
in possession of each King until Henry III. gave them, together with
Easingwold and Huby, to Earl Simon de Montfort, and after his death
gave them to his son Edmund to hold until he should provide for him
other lands of equal value which were not part of the Crown Lands.
All this time and even before it, from time immemorial, Ralph de
Bolbeck and his ancestors were stewards of the forest and foresters in
fee, and appointed and discharged foresters and verderersf and held
the Court of Attachments as appurtenant thereto at Pickering and in
Scalby Hay ; he answered to the King for all offences of vert and
venison, and had for his services the profits of agistments, pannage,
herbage and dry wood lying and falling throughout the forest, except
in Blansby Park, the profits of which the King took.

Ralph de Bolbeck was succeeded by another Ralph, his son and
heir, who was steward and forester in fee, as his ancestors were before
him ; Ralph the younger was succeeded by his brother and heir
Osbert, in whose time Sir Hugh Bygot, then the Earl Marshall, obtained

* As this document is of the date of Edward II. I do not like to suggest that this
statement is incorrect, but I have found no trace of the grant.

t Could this have been so ? I find no trace of verderers, except those appointed
in the County Courts.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 243

(levant luy, et apres le decesse mesme celuy Raufe fut un Ouberne son
frer et heire, en qi temps Sir Hugh Bygot* qe adonkes fut Count
Mareshall occupya le dit office, et apres son decesse entra en mesme le
office sir Roger Bygot et le tient taunk qil fut demis en le temps le dit
Mousieur Emond par mauveise counseile et poerf de seignourye. E
apres le decesse mesme celuy Mousieur Emond entra Sire Thomas
nadgairs Count de Lancastre, en qi temps moutz de merveiles furent
faites par baillifes, foresters et vereders en desheritizon de la Coronne,
cum de purprestures et enclostures countre lasise de la foreste, et ceo a
graunt destruccion de sauvagyn et desheritizon du Roi et de ses liges
gentz qe illoqes sunt communers. E outre ceo les ditz baillifes, foresters
et verders ount forfais qaunt qil purrount forfaire vers nostre seignour
le Roi, qar illi ount levez countre luy mayntefoiz a force et armes et unt
fait par lour force autres [?qi]f tenent de nostre seignour le Roi lever
encountre lour lige Seignour, ceo est a savoir en primes assaillaunt son
Chastell de Scardeburgh ove trois centz hommes vestuz en courtepys§
de verte, queux furent triez et alloqes enchacez per Johan de Dalton
adonkes bailliff de Pykerynges, et illoyes tiendrent la assaut taunk qe
le Count de Cornewaille, Mousieur Piersjj qiloqes fut per comaundement
le Roi se rendit entre les maynes des grauntz qiloqes furent. E puys

the office ; after his decease Sir Roger Bygot entered upon the office
and held it until he was deposed in the time of Earl Edmund by evil
counsell and his power as superior Lord. After the decease of Earl
Edmund he was succeeded by Thomas, late Earl of Lancaster, in whose
time many strange things were done by the bailiffs, foresters and
verderers in prejudice of the rights of the Crown, such as purprestures
and enclosures, contrary to the assizes of the Forest, to the great
destruction of the game, and to the injury of the King and those of his
subjects who are commoners there. Moreover, the bailiffs, foresters
and verderers have committed forfeitures whenever they could against
the King, often rebelling against him and making others who are the
King's tenants rebel, to wit, first when they besieged Scarborough
Castle with three hundred men clad in green jackets, who were arrayed
and led by John de Dalton, then bailiff of Pickering, and kept up the
siege until the then Earl of Cornwall, who was there by the King's
order, surrendered himself into the hands of the great men who were
there. Afterwards, by their violence and imprisonment, they made
the King's liege subjects go, at their own cost, with the Earl of Lan-

* See Vol. I., N.S., p. xx.

t This word is interlined and is intended to be substituted for pouwere.

J There is a hole in the petition here.

§ Halliwell ; — Courtepy (A.N.) a short cloak of coarse cloth.

|| de Gaveston. See Vol. II., N.S., p. xxi.

R 2

244 APPENDIX.

apres il firent par lour force et enprisonement les Hge gentz nostre
Seignour le Roi aler ovesqe les gentz le Count de Lancaster a lour
custage de mesme en les parties del West a prendre Sir Adam Banastre
et sa compaignye et les mettre a la mort. E puys apres unt este
maintefoiz tries par les ditz baillifes, foresters et verders de alere a force
et amies encountre lour seignour lige a Euerwykes a divers parlementz, a
Pountfreit* quant nostre seignour le Roi fut esoriez en sa terre demesne,
au Nove Chaustellf sur Tyne qaunt le Count de Lancastre chivaucha
encountre nostre dit seignour le Roi, au Chaustell de TykhillJ qaunt
la sege il fut, mes encountre le enemys de Scoce unices ne voleint il
horame trier ne suffrire estre triez. Outre ceo ceux qe se cleiment
foresters unt abatus keines saunz nombre en le temps le Count de
Lancastre et genz triez et les gentz du pays enentes et reint par lour
poer, si qil sunt mendinantz, et eux riches des terres, tenementz et de
beaus maners et riens aporterent ovesqe eux fors arkes et settes et simple
vesture. Des queux choses sutzditz si plut a nostre seignour le Roi
assigner enqerours pour son graunt profist et en avauntage de ses liges
gentz en ceux parties, et qe ceux qe se cleyment foresters et verders en

caster's people, into the West Country to take Sir Adam de Banastre§
and his force and put them to death. Afterwards they have many
times been arrayed by the bailiffs, foresters and verderers to go with
force of arms against their liege Lord at York at the time of several
Parliaments, at Pontefract when the King was opposed on his own
land, at Newcastle-on-Tyne when the Earl of Lancaster rode against the
King, and at the siege of the Castle of Tickhill, but against the enemies
of Scotland they would not array, or allow to be arrayed, one man.

Moreover, those that claim to be foresters have felled oaks without
number in the time of the Earl of Lancaster, made arrays and indicted
and ruined the people of the country by their power, so that the latter
are beggared while the former are rich in lands, tenements and fine
manors, though, when they came into the country, they had nothing
but their bows and arrows and the clothes they walked in.

It will be to the advantage of the King and of his subjects in these
parts to inquire into these matters, and to call on the foresters in fee

* This was the Earl of Lancaster's rebellion in 1317.

f Taken by the Earl in 1 312.

J This was at the commencement of the Earl's rebellion in 1322.

§ He led an army in Lancashire against the Earl of Lancaster, about the Feast of
All Souls, 1315, but was defeated and beheaded. The Malmesbury chronicle says
Banastre had 80 men and the Earl's force consisted of 600. According to the Annales
Paulini, the quarrel began between Robert de Holland and Adam de Banastre. A
Pardon was granted to the Earl of Lancaster for his death, as well as for the death
of Peter de Gaveston in the Parliament held at York, November, 13 18.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 245

fee poussent moustre leur title et qil soint ostez de lour offices taunk
les ditz choses soint enquise et qe chescune qe vodra suire pur le Roi
ou se pleindre des damages qil a resceu, furent resceus en fourme de lai
adonkes serroit trovez touz ceux outrages et plusures autres.

Ancient Petition, N° 6,348.

A nostre seignour le Roy e a son conseil moustre Scolace qi fu la
femme Mounsieur Godefrey de Meuys qe come ele eit e teigne la
manoir de Levezham* ou les apurtinaunces en le Counte Deuerwyk du
lese meistre Thomas de Levesham a qi nostre seignour le Roi lessa le
dit manoir ove les apurtinaunces a tenirtant qe al age Johan, fitz et heir
le dit Godefrey, a quel manoir la baillie del hay de Scalby est apur-
tenaunt, e rendaunt par an quatre marcz et x soutz, la quele baillie
Thomas Counte de Lancastre seisi en sa meine apres la mort le dit
Godefrey par la resoun de la dite ferme qil voleit rescevir de la dite
baillie, et pur le noun age le dit heir, et hore est la dit baillie devenuz
en votre meine par le forfiture le dit Counte, par quey la dite Scolace
prie a nostre seignour le Roi e a son conseil qele puisse aver la dit
baillie qest apurtenaunt au dit manoir, rendaunt la dite ferme jesqes al
le loile age le dit heir de quei le Roi nad nul profit.

[Endorsed] Soient vewes le enquestes faites par le diem clausit

and verderers to prove their title and to be deprived of their office
until the inquiry has been made. Every one who wishes to sue on
behalf of the King, or to complain of damages which he has received
ought to be heard according to law. Then all these wrongs and many
more will be discovered.

The petition to King and Council of Scolastica, widow of Godfrey
de Meaux. She holds Levisham manor by lease from Master Thomas
de Levisham, to whom the King leased it during the minority of John
the son and heir of Godfrey ; to which manor the bailiwick of Scalby
Hay is appurtenant, being held at a rent of £3 3s. 4d.f After the
death of Godfrey, Thomas Earl of Lancaster seized the bailiwick into
his hands because the heir was under age, and he wished to receive the
rent from the bailiwick. Now the bailiwick has come into the King's
hands through the Earl's forfeiture, and Scolastica prays the King that
she may have the bailiwick which is appurtenant to the manor, paying
the rent up to the time of the heir's majority, of which the King has
no profit.

[Endorsed.] Let the inquisitions post mortem of Godfrey be

* See Vol. II., N.S., p. xxvii.

t It is not quite certain whether Scolastica pays ^3 3s. 4<i. for Scalby Hay alone,
or for the whole manor of Levuham.

246 APPENDIX.

extremum apres la mort Godefrei e moustre en Chauncellerie ceo qe
ele ad de la ferme a luy soit fait dreit illoeques. Coram Rege.

Ancient Petition, N° 4,556.
A nostre seignour le Ray e a sun counsaill mustre sun bacheler
Richard de Berlaye, qe cum le dit Richard pur diverses grevaunces e
damages qe a li furent foces [? faces] par le Count de Lancastre e par
ses ministres graunta al dit Count la reversion de sun maner de Berlaye
od les apurtenaunces rendant al dit Richard tote sa vie xlH par an a
recevir del maner de Pikeringe, dount il fu seisi de certains tenaunz a
ceo ordine, cum les escriz endentees entre eus tesmoignent solun le
transescrist qe ci est la [?], quelle reversone ore apent a nostre seignour
le Ray pur la forfeite le dit Count, mes ore le dit Richard est demis
par les ministres nostre seignour le Ray qi lount seisi, dount le dit
Richard prie grace qe lai e dreiture pur Deu de ceo li sait ordine e fet.

Ancient Petition, N° 4,557.

Conue chose soit a totes genz que nous Thomas Counte de Lan-
castre seneschal Dengleterre avoums done e graunte e par cest escrist
endente confirme a mousieure Richard de Berlaye quaraunte livres de
annuele rente issaunt de terres e de tenemenz, firmes e de noz
molins dedenz nostre maner de Pikeringe, ceo est assavoir de noz
tenaunz de Gotheland e Alayntoftes vint treiz livres diset soutz un dener

examined, and let her show in Chancery what part of the rent she has,
and let right be done.

The petition to King and Council of Richard de Berlay. Forced by
injuries done to him by the Earl of Lancaster and his officers he granted
the reversion of the manor of Berlay to the Earl in exchange for an
annuity for life of ^40 charged on the manor of Pickering. Of this
annuity he was seised, certain tenants being assigned to pay it, as the
transcript of the indenture annexed hereto witnesses.

Now, through the forfeiture of the Earl, the reversion belongs to the
King, but Richard is ousted of his rent by the King's officers who
have seized it.

Wherefore Richard prays the King's favour that law and justice may
for God's sake be done to him.

Let it be known to all that I, Thomas Earl of Lancaster, Steward of
England, have given and granted and by this Indenture confirm to Sir
Richard de Berlay ^40 annuity issuing out of lands and tenements,
farms and mills, within my manor of Pickering, to wit ^23 17s i^d
from my tenants of Goathland and Allantofts, and ^16 2s io^d
out of my mills at Pickering, so long as such mills are in

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 247

e maille, e de noz molins de Pikeringe sesce livres deux soutz dis
deners e maille, le quel que les avaunt ditz molins seient en nostre
main demene ou en les mains de firmeres a payer a termes usueles,
aver e tenir lavantdite rente au dit mousieure Richard a terme de sa
vie franchement, quitement, ben e en pees ovesque le atornement des
tenaunz e fermeres que assignez li sunt de lur rentes e fermes a payer
a lui, issi que si rien lui sait arere a nul terme del avaundite rente de
quarauntes livres par an par mort ou povert ou en autre manere
voloums et grauntoums pur nous e noz haires que le dit Mousieur
Richard puisse destreindre les tenaunz, fermeres e coutoumeres
dedenz nostre manere de Pikering, e la distresce enchacer hors de
nostre seignurie a sa volunte e retenire saunz desturbaunce de nous ou
de noz hairs taunt quil sait plainement paie de quantque arere li serra
de memes la rente. E nous Thomas Count avantdit e noz haires
lavantdite rente au dit Mousieur Richard a terme de sa vie sicum
avant est dit garaunteroums e defenderoums contre totes genz, issint
totes vais que apres le desees le dit Mousieur Richard la dite rente
de quarante livres enterement a nous e a noz hairs retorne saunz nuli
contredit. En tesmoignance de quele chose a ceste escrist endentee
ausi ben nous cum le dit Mousieure Richard entrechaungeablement
avoums mis noz seals par ces tesmoignes. Msr Johan Leek, Msr
Johan de Cliffe, Msr Rauf de Beston, Msr Williame de Beston, Msr
Robt de Raygate, Msr Robert de Ryther, Msr Warin de Schargille e
autres. Don a nostre Chastel de Pontfreit le primer jour de Octobre
Ian du reigne le Ray Edw. fitz al treshonourable Ray E quintime.

[Endorsed] Ostendat scriptum in Cancellaria et inquirat vicecomes
et fiat justicia.

my own hands or in the hands of farmers paying at the usual terms,
to hold to the said Richard for his life, freely, quietly, well, and peace-
ably, together with the attornment of the tenants and farmers who are
assigned to pay their rents and ferms to him, so that if any part of the
rent of ^"40 be in arrear on any day of payment thereof whether in
consequence of death or poverty or for any other reason I will and
grant for myself and my heirs that Sir Richard may distrain on the
tenants, farmers, and customary tenants within the manor of Pickering,
and drive the distress out of my lordship at will and detain it without
disturbance from me and my heirs until he is paid in full whatever is
in arrear of the rent. I and my heirs also warrant the rent to Sir
Richard for his life, so nevertheless that after his death it revert to me
and my heirs. Dated, Pontefract, 1 October, 13 n.

[Endorsed] Let the deed be exhibited in Chancery, let the Sheriff
inquire, and let justice be done.

248 APPENDIX.

Ancient Petition, N° 10,041.
A nostre seignur le Roi e a son conseil prie Nichol de Stapelton
remedie pur Dieu qe come il feust nadgaires en la compaignie le
Counte de Lancastre qi mort est qi Dieux assoille e de sa retenaunce,
le dit Nichol par cele enchesene tantoust apres la mort le dit Counte
feust pris e mis en prisone en Chastel Deverwyk et les terres le dit
Nichol e ses chateux estruz e monimentez touchantz son heritage
feurent pris e seisitz en la meyn le Roi et le dit Nichol puis apres en
meisme cele prisone par Hugh le Despencer et autres mis a raunceon
de deux m1 marcs e puis lesse aler hors de prisone, et issi ount ses
terres e ses chateux este en la meyn le Roi puis la mort le dit Counte
et uncore sont, et ses boys et ses autres choses en diverses lieux en
grante partie destruitz. Et puis la mort le dit Counte le dit Nichol de
sa terre ne de ses choses unqe ne poait avoir sustenaunce ne eide pur
lui ne pur ses enfauntz, ja par cink aunz passeiz, par qai ly e ses
enfauntz ount este et sont en point destre peritz. Dounte le dit Nichol
prie a nostre Seignur le Roi et a son bon conseil qil puisse estre quites
de la ranceoun issint pecherousement assize sur lui, et qil puisse avoir
restitucion de ses terres et auxi des monumentz touchantz son heritage,
et qil puisse avoir les chateux trovetz en ses manoirs qi sont petitz,
eiant regard a son grant meschief qil ad suffert et de ses chateux per-
dutz et les issues resceuz de ses terres du meen temps qi amontent a
deux m1 marcs et plus.

The petition to King and Council of Nicholas Stapelton. For
God's sake he prays redress. He was lately in the company and
of the retinue of [Thomas] Earl of Lancaster, who is dead, and may
God have mercy on his soul, in consequence whereof shortly after the
Earl's death he was taken and imprisoned in York Castle, and his lands
and chattels were extended, and the title-deeds relating to his real es'ate
were seized into the King's hands. Afterwards he was ransomed by
Hugh le Despenser and others for ,£1,333 6s 8d and then released
from prison ; thus his lands and chattels since the Earl's death have
been and still are in the King's hands, and his woods and other pro-
perty in different places for the most part wasted. For the last five
years since the Earl's death, Nicholas could not get any maintenance
for himself and his children out of his lands and other property, so that
he and his children are at the point of perishing. He prays remission
of the ransom so wickedly imposed upon him, and restoration of his lands
and of his title deeds and of the chattels found in his manors which are
but small, having regard to the great damage which he has suffered,
and to the loss of the chattels and the mesne profits of his lands which
amount to the sum of £i,Z$Z 6s 8d, and more.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 249

[Endorsed] Soit cestre peticion mande en Chauncellerie et le
Chauncelleur se avise de la cause de la prise des terres et tenementz
et munimentz contenues en cestre peticion en la mein le Roi et sil
furent pris en la mein le Roi par cause de la querele etc, et nemie
par autre, soient les terres et tenementz restituz ove les issues et arrer-
ages de ferme dont le Roi nest nemie servi, et les munimentz liverez et
la fin et raunceon dampne enroul de Chauncelleur et soi bref mande
as Tresoreur et Barons etc. qil la facent dampnent illocqes.

Ancient Petition, N° 2,247.
A nostre seignur le Roi et a son conseil moustre Johan le fitz Hugh
de Esyngvvold, qe come Thomas jadis Conte de Lancastre, le tierz
jour de May Ian da regne le piere nostre seignur le Roi qi ore est
trentisme quint, dona et granta par son escrit pur lui et pur ses heires
a William Engelond et a Muriel sa femme totes les terres et tenementz
qi furent en sa main en la vile de Esyngvvold par la mort mestre
Alein de Esyngvvold, aussi entierment come le dit mestre Alein le
tynt, et come au dit Conte devindrent, a avoir et tenir as avantditz
William et Muriel a terme de lour deux vies, fesant ent par an au dit
Conte et a ses heirs les services des ditz terres et tenementz dues et
acustumez, sicome en le dit escrit plus pleynement est contenu. Et
puis apres les avantditz William Engleys et Muriel Ian du regne nostre
seignur le Roi qi ore est unzisme granterent par lour escrit au dit

[Endorsed] Let this petition be sent into the Chancery, and let the
Chancellor ascertain the cause of seizure into the King's hands of the
lands, tenements and title-deeds referred to in this petition, and if
they were seized on account of the Earl's quarrel and for no other
reason, let the lands and tenements be restored with the issues and the
arrears of farm of which the King has not availed himself, and the
title deeds delivered and the fine and ransom cancelled in the Chan-
cellor's roll, and let a writ issue to the Treasurer and Barons of the
Exchequer directing them to cancel the same.

The petition to King and Council of John son of Hugh of Easing-
wold. Thomas, late Earl of Lancaster, on the 3rd of May, 1305, by deed
granted to William England and Muriel, his wife, all the lands and
tenements in the township of Easingwold, which came to his hands by
the death of Master Alan de Easingwold, as fully as Master Alan held
them and as they devolved on the Earl, to hold to William and Muriel
for the term of their two lives, performing yearly to the Earl and his
heirs the services due and accustomed, as appears more clearly in the
deed. Afterwards William English [sic] and Muriel his wife, in the year
1316, by deed granted the same lands and tenements, with the appur-

250 APPENDIX.

Johan meismes les terres et tenementz ove les apurtenances a avoir et
tenir a terme de lour deux vies aussi entierment come il les aveynt
du doun le dit Conte. Queu fait le dit Conte conferma par son
escrit le vyntisme primer jour de Feverer meisme Ian unzisme, et le
dit Johan ad tenu tut temps puis les ditz tenementz en pees tanqe a
ore qe Leschetour lui lue* ostier, pur ceo qe les avantditz William et
Muriel et le dit Johan les purchacerent sanz conge de nostre seignur
le Roi. Par quei le dit Johan prie a nostre seignur le Roi qil voille
comander qe le dit Johan puisse estre receu de faire fyn pur le dit
trespas et retenir les ditz tenementz en la fourme avantdite tanqe a la
mort William et Muriel qi uncore sont en pleine vie, et les avantditz
escritz est le dit Johan prest de moustrer quant homme voille [?].
[Endorsed] Habeat breve si sit ad dampnum.

Ancient Petition, N° 4167.!
A nostre seignur le Roi prie son Bacheler Johan de Faucounbergh
qe come Hugh le Despencer le fuitz nadgares . . . . le Roi fist
enditer le dit Johan de ceo qil deust avoir pris un ceerf et une byse en
la foreste de P. . . . coupe et sur ceo le dit Hugh le fist attacher et
tenir en prisone et en garde tanqe le dit Johan par .... Roi de cent
marcz de queux il ad paie diz marcz et pur la remenaunt il est
destreynt grevous .... Johan prie a nostre seignur le Roi desicome
il feust et est touz jour prest de soy acquiter qil ne . . . . de sa
grace luy voille relesser eel outrageouse fyne et raunson illec [?]
pescherousement ....

tenances, to the said John to hold during the term of their two lives
as fully as they held them of the Earl's gift, which grant the Earl con-
firmed by deed, dated 1 February, 13 16. John has always since then
held the tenements in peace, until lately the escheater has seized them
from him, because William and Muriel, and John purchased them with-
out the King's leave. Wherefore John prays the King to direct that
he may compound for the offence and hold the lands till the death of
William and Muriel, who are still alive. He is ready to show the deeds
when required. [Endorsed] Let him have a writ si sit ad dampnum.

The petition to the King of John de Faucomberge. Hugh le
Despenser, the younger, caused him to be indicted for having taken a
hart and a hind in Pickering Forest. He was arrested, imprisoned
and fined ^66 13s 4d, of which he has paid £,6 13s 4d, and the rest
is now being levied by distress. He prays remission of the fine.

* This word I should prefer to read bie, if I could ascertain that that word has
any meaning. My reading of lue is a conjecture.

f This petition is so mutilated that, were it not that it throws light on the pre-
sentments at pp. 98, 217 of Vol. II., N.S., it would be hardly worth copying.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 25 I

[Endorsed] Por ceo qe le trespas feust fait en la foreste de Pykeryng
qi feust en la meyn le piere le Roi qe ore est par reson de la querele
Thomas Counte de Lancastre et ordene est en Parlement qe le Roi nent
mie les issues de terres qe feuront en la querele, des queux il nest mie
uncore servi . . . . et pur ceo qil fust endite devant autre qe gardein
de la foreste contre lei de foreste, soit mande a Thesorer et Barons qe
issint soit qe il soit de la . . . . estallement.

Ancient Petition, N° 7,985.

A nostre seignour le Roi e son conseil prie Ammerose de la
Chaumbre qe la ou il feust endite de trespas faite en sa Foreste de
Pikering devant Sire William de Ayremynne qant nostre seignour le
Roi feust darein a Pikering, qil lui pleise ordeiner certeines gentz
aprendre fyn du dit Ammerose pur le dite trepas.

Ancient Petition, N° 12,921.
A nostre seignour le Roi e son counsel prie Robert le fuiz Marmaduc
de Tweng qe la ou il feust endite de trespas faite en sa Foreste de
Pikering, &c as above.

Ancient Petition, N° 189.

(Petitiones in Parliamento, a.d. 1321 & 1322, N° 5.)

A nostre seignur le Roi e a son conseil moustre Aleyn le filtz

Willam Malkak de Pikeryng, qe com Willam Malkak ael le dit Aleyn

granta e dona a Roger son fitz un mees e xiij boves de terre en Loke-

[Endorsed] Since the offence was committed in Pickering Forest,
which then was in the hands of Edward IL, in consequence of the
quarrel of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and since it was ordained in
Parliament that the King should not take any more of the profits of
the lands of those who were concerned in the quarrel of which he had
not yet availed himself, and since contrary to the law of the Forest the
petitioner was indicted before other than the Keeper of the Forest, the
Treasurer and Barons are directed to be satisfied with the instalment
already paid [?].

Ambrose de la Chambre prays the King and Council to appoint cer-
tain persons to assess a fine upon him for the offence committed in
Pickering Forest for which he was indicted before Sir William de Ayre-
mynne when the King was last at Pickering.

Robert, son of Marmaduke de Tweng, makes the like request.

The petition to King and Council of Alan, son of William Malcake,
of Pickering. His grandfather, William Malcake, granted in fee tail to

252 APPENDIX.

ton de eynz la Seignurie de Pikeryng a luy e as heirs de son corps issanz
par fee taille, lequel Roger aliena les ditz tenementz au Mestre e au
Freres jadis du Temple vers qi le dit Aleyn come procheyn heyr le dit
William le donour a qi la reversion appendoit par defalte de isseue le dit
Roger, suyt son recoverir tanqe la defesaunce des Templers. Apres
laquele Thomas jadis Conte de Lancastre par poer de seignurie occupa
totes les terres susdites e les tynt encountre la forme du doun avaunt-
dit en desheritance le dit Aleyn, e par la felonie le dit Thomas nostre
seignur le Roi seisy totes les terres et les tynt. De qi il prie remedie.
[Endorsed] Moustre en Court ceo qil ad de la forme du doun e
seient cerchez les munimentz les Templers e les munimentz le Conte
de Lancastre. E si rien soit trove barre de sa demande seit enquis la
verite e retorne e outre seit fait droit.

Ancient Petition, N° 1,612.
A nostre seignour le Roi et son conseil moustre William de Bergh
persone de Leglise de Thorntone de sa seignourie de Pikeringe que la
ou ses predecessours de meisme leglise et lui deivent et soleient
communer ove totes maneres de bestes en totes les sesons del ane en
Daleby, Cleufield et Haverberghe qui sont lues joygnauntz a Thorntone
et denz meisme la paroche de sa eglise, comme aportenaunt a la glebe
de leglise avauntdite, denz queux lues avauntditz qui sont ore en la
mayne nostre seignour le Roy apres la mort le Counte de Lancastre,

his son Roger a messuage and thirteen oxgangs of land in Lockton,
within the Lordship of Pickering. Roger alienated the lands to the
late Master and Brethern of the Temple, and died without issue. The
reversion came to Alan as his grandfather's heir, and he was bringing
an action against the Templars at the time of their suppression. After-
wards Thomas, late Earl of Lancaster, seized the lands as his seignourial
right, and held them contrary to the form of the grant to the damage
of Alan. After Earl Thomas's attainder the King seized the lands and
holds them. Alan prays redress.

[Endorsed] The form of the grant must be produced in Court, the
title-deeds of the Templars and of the Earl of Lancaster must be
examined. If nothing is found to bar the claim an inquiry must be made
and the truth certified, when right will be done.

A petition to King and Council of William de Bergh, Rector of
Thornton, in the Lordship of Pickering. He and his predecessors in
the Rectory ought and were wont to common with all manner of beasts
as appurtenant to his glebe at all seasons of the year in Dalby, Cleu-
field, and Haverbergh, which are places adjoining Pickering within
Thornton Parish. These places, since Earl Thomas's death, have been

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prie le dit William a nostre seignour le Roi qil puisse avoir sa commune
soutzdit.

A nostre seignour le Roi et a sa conseil moustre William le fitz
Bernard de Bergh que la ou il tient quatre bovez de terre ove les
aportenaunz en Lokton denz sa seignourie de Pikering, en quele ville est
un leu qui est norae Hollecoumbe, en quel leu lui et ses auncestres,
tenauntz de la terre avauntdite, deivent et soleient communer ove totes
maneres de bestes en totes les sesons del ane comme aportenaunt a la
terre avauntdite ; et le queu leu de Hollecoumbe est ore en la mayne
nostre seignour le Roi apres la morte le Counte de Lancastre ; et le
dit William de sa commune en le dit leu est destourbe. Par quei le
dit William pri a nostre seignour le Roi qil puisse, si lui pleise, la dite
commune avoire comme ses auncestres devaunt lui avayent.

Ad istas duas peticiones assignentur certi fideles ad inquirendum
super contends in peticione veritatem, et retornata inde inquisicione fiat
ei in Cancellaria justicia.

Ancient Petition, N° 7,391.
A nostre seignour le Roi et son Conseil pry Alayn, fuiz et heire
Roger de Wrelton, qe la ou le dit Roger morust seisi en son demeyn
comme de fee et de droit de quatre tuftes et quatre boves de terre ove
les apurtenances en Lokton en Pykerynglyth, semblement ove la
foresterye de Pykeryng en fee au diz tenemenz apurtenanz, les queux
tenemenz semblement ove la foresterye le Cunte de Lancastre par sa

in the King's hands, and the Rector prays that he may have his
common.

The petition of William, son of Bernard de Bergh. He holds four
oxgangs of land, with the appurtenances, in Lockton, within the Lord-
ship of Pickering, in which township there is a place called Horcum,
where he and his ancestors while holding the land mentioned and as
appurtenant thereto ought and were wont to common with all manner
of beasts at all seasons of the year. Horcum, since the Earl's death,
has been in the King's hands, and William has been prevented from com-
moning. He prays that he may be permitted to do so as his ancestors
had done.

Certain of the King's subjects are to be appointed to inquire as to the
truth of the matters complained of in these two petitions, and when
the inquisition is returned justice must be done.

A Petition to King and Council of Alan, son and heir of Roger de
Wrelton. Roger died seised in fee of four tofts and four oxgangs of
land with the appurtenances in Lockton in Pickeringlith, which
appurtenances included the forestership in fee of Pickering. All this

254 APPENDIX.

seignourye ocupa apres la morte le dit Rogier, issy qe le dit Alayn suy
son droit siavant comme lay de terre poait suffrire, et le droit le dit
Alayn trove par bon enqueste pris en le Wapentake de Pykering par les
baillifs le dit Cunte, et le dit Alayn unqes par nulle manere de sute a
son droit poait attayndre, de quay il pry grace et remedy.

[Endorsed] Mostre ail Chaunceler ceo qil ad de ceo et le Roi seit
certefie.

Coram Rege Herlaston.*

Thomas Ughtred et H. de Burgh, John de Kylvynton.

Ancient Petition, N° 3,430.
A nostre seignour le Roi et son conseil mo[ustre . . . ]t chapeleyn
Labbe de Ryvaulx qe come Labbe Johan de Reynton son predecessour
en Ian du regne piere nostre seignour le Roi vintisme par commande-
ment nostre seignour le Roi qore est et de son conseil, et puis sovent
en temps nostre seignour le Roi qore est par lui et par son conseil, feust
charge daler en Escoce od autres bones gentz a ceo assignez pur tretter
et finalment faire les choses contenue en lour Commissiouns, et pur
ceo qe le dit Abbe Johan se hasta taunt par commaundement nostre
seignour le Roi en alant et retournaunt a nostre seignour le Roi a
Loundres et aillours, issint qil perdist touz ses chyvaux, nostre seignour

Earl Thomas seized by right of his superior lordship after the death
of Roger, and though Alan sued for his rights according to the law
of the land, and though a verdict was given in his favour in the
Wapentake Court of Pickering in an inquest taken by the Earl's
bailiffs, yet by no manner of suit can he enforce his rights, wherefore
he prays redress.

Let him petition the Chancellor, and let the result be certified to
the King.

A Petition to King and Council of the Abbot of Rievaulx.

His predecessor, John de Rainton, in the year 1327, and often after-
wards, at the order of the present King and the Council was directed
to proceed to Scotland with other good folk as commissioners of
peace.

The Abbot made such haste in executing the King's orders, both in
going there and returning to the King in London and elsewhere,
that he lost all his horses. So the King ordered Sir Robert de

* During the latter part of the reign of Edward II. William de Herlaston, who
was at one time a clerk in chancery, constantly had the temporary custody of the
great seal, see Parliamentary Writs passim, in which also we find Hugo de Burgh
about the same time acting as attorney for the Abbot of St. Mary's, York.

t lorn.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 25$

le Roi comanda a Sire Robt de Wodhous* adonqes Gardeyn de la
garderobe qil liverast au dit Abbe Johan treis chyvaux henners en
alowaunce de ses chyvaux issint perduz en son service, pur queux
chyvaux sont ore demandez hors de la Pipe de Lescheqer quaraunt
mars, auxicome le dit Abbe Johan les eust resceu de achat, dont le
dit Abbe qore est prie qil soit descharge pur Dieu et en alowaunce del
graunt travail, despenses et diligence qe le dit Abbe Johan son
predecessour fist en tiel manere par comandement nostre seignour
le Roi et son conseil avantdit.

[Endorsed] Pur ceo qil est tesmoigne devant le Conseil qe le dit
Abbe perdy plusurs de ses chivaux en le service le Roi et qe le dit Roi
qore est lui dona les ditz trois chivaux de son doun en restorance de
ses chivaux, soit mande a Tresorer et Barons del Escheker qils
sursessent de la demaunde qils font au dit Abbe par la cause avantdite
et lui facent ent quite et descharge.

Ancient Petition, N° 8,109.

(Pari. Pet. a.d. 1330. N° 77.)

A nostre seignur le Roy et a son conseil priont ses liges gentz du

Vale de Pikering, qe desicome nostre seignur le Roy, piere nostre

seignur le Roy qi ore est, et auxint nostre seignur le Roy qi ore est par

commune assent des toutz les Piers de la terre granteront qe touz les

Woodhouse, then Keeper of the Wardrobe, to deliver to the Abbot
threef horses, as compensation for the horses lost in the King's
service ; but now a demand has been made out of the Exchequer for
^26 13s 4d, the price of the horses, as soon as the Abbot John had
received them.

Wherefore the Abbot prays, for God's sake, that he may be dis-
charged in compensation for the great trouble, expense and diligence
incurred by the Abbot John at the order of the King and Council.

[Endorsed] Since it is proved to the Council that the Abbot lost
several of his horses in the King's service, and that the King gave
him the three horses in compensation for those lost, the Treasurer
and Barons of the Exchequer are directed to cease from their
demand, and to acquit and discharge the Abbot.

A Petition to King and Council of the King's subjects in the Vale
of Pickering. Both Edward II. and Edward III., with the assent of
the Peers of the Realm, conceded that all the forests in England

* The words in italics are filled in with other coloured ink in blanks left for that
purpose. Robert de Woodhouse was keeper of the wardrobe temp. Edw. III.

t I cannot suggest a meaning for henners, or heuuers. It might be formed from
hemoys, harness, and mean accoutred; or, again, there is a word haunieck — Flemish,

256 APPENDIX.

Forestes dengleterre feussent chivachez et qe Purale se feit partuf,
auxibien des anciens demeins come des forestes nostre dit seignour le
Roy ; pleise a nostre dit seigneur le Roy et a" son bon conseil ordeiner
qe la foreste du dit Vale de Pykering qe est de lancien demeyn et de
la Corone, soit auxibien chivauche et purale fait come sont les forestes
nostre dit seigneur le Roy et come la dite foreste de antiquite soleit
estre quant ils furent en les mains les progenitours nostre dit seignour
le Roy, desicome lei ne reson ne voet qe nuls des Piers de la terre soit
plus esparni qe le Roy mesme ne est.

[Endorsed] Soit ceste peticion mande en Chauncellerie et la soit fait
bref a faire venir le Counte de Lancastre devant le Roi a certain jour
a moustrer purquai la Purale ne doit estre faite en ceste foreste de
Pikeryng auxi come en autres forestes.

Ancient Petition, N° 7,193.
A nostre seignour le Roy e a soun counseil prient le povers gents de
sa terre si li plest qil voille avor regard de lur estat endreit des
Coumseillers, seneschals, baillifs e autres ministres qe furent ove Sire
Thomas jadis Counte de Lanastre qe menerunt le people en graunt
angusse par prises e en autre manere tortenousment e tresterent les
tenaunts nostre seignour le Roy denz la fraunchise le Counte par poer,
e leverent de eus servise e custumes avaunt dues al Roy, e moldes
autres torts firent ausi bien a nostre seignour le Roy com al pople, qe

should be ridden and perambulation made everywhere, as well in
lands of ancient demesne as in the King's forest. May, therefore,
the King and Council be pleased to decree that the Forest of the
Vale of Pickering, which is ancient demesne of the Crown, may be
ridden and perambulated as other of the King's Forests are, and as
the Forest itself of old used to be when it was in the hands of the
King's ancestors, since it is neither law nor reason that the Peers of
the Realm should be more spared than the King himself.

Let this petition be sent to the Chancellor, and let the Earl of
Lancaster be summoned before the King by writ on a certain day to
show cause why the perambulation should not be made in Pickering
Forest as in other forests.

A Petition to King and Council of the poor folk of the realm.

May they please to take into consideration their condition with
regard to the Councillors, stewards, bailiffs, and other officers who were
with Sir Thomas, late Earl of Lancaster, who brought the people into
great distress by their seizures and in other wrongful ways, and
afflicted the King's tenants within the Earl's liberty by their power,
and levied from them services and customs formerly due to the King,

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 257

ben serra trove quel houre qil plest a nostre seignour le Roy a tel
ordeyner ses Justices, dount il prient a nostre seignour le Roy pur son
prorist de meyen e pur relevacion de son poplee, qe teles maners des
seneschals e baillifs ne seient recounseillez de Court ne mys en offiz,
taunke lur estat soit trie par pays, kar taunke il sount si ben de Court
e ount tel a dos il entendent nostre seignour le Roy de eus mesmes
saunz recoverer.

[Endorsed] Rex* habebit avisamentum super contentis in peticione.

Ancient Petition, N° 1,860.

A nostre seignour le Rey e soun counsaylle demoustre Roger le
Carecter le seon burgeys de Schardeburgh, de ceo ke il avoit une nef
ad sun service en Gasconye sur ses coustages pur tote la comunaute
de Scardeburgh, la quele nef perdist ancres e cables e autre atil ke a le
avaunt dite Neef apendeyt a la mountaunce de xxx livr, de la quele
perte la avaunt dit comunaute ne ly voit ren restorez, de quoy il prie
agrac e ke il ly volie graunter sun bref as baillifs e as prudeshommes
de la vile ke eus ly facent ses damages restorez par contribucyoun
entre eus, de sicum il saverat renablement moustrer devaunt eus ke
par encheson cele damage ly est escheu e perte.

[Endorsed] Mandetur ballivis et probis hominibus quod faciant
contribucionem sicut fit in aliis locis maritimis consimilibus etc.

and committed many other wrongful acts as well against King as
people, which will certainly be discovered whenever it please the
King to direct his Justices to hold an inquiry. Wherefore they pray
the King, for his own profit and for the relief of his people, that such
stewards and bailiffs be not employed by the Court, nor put in office
until their condition be examined by a jury of the country, for so
long as they stand so well at Court and have it at their back, they
practise upon the King without redress.

A Petition to King and Council of Roger the Carter, burgess of
Scarborough. He provided a ship at his own cost on behalf of the
commonalty of Scarborough for the King's service in Gascony, which
ship lost its anchors, cables and other fittings to the value of ^30,
but the commonalty would not contribute to the loss. He therefore
prays that a writ of contribution may be directed to the bailiffs and
great men of the town, since he can prove before them the damage
which he has suffered by this loss.

[Endorsed] Let the bailiffs and great men of the town be directed
to make contribution, as is the custom in other like seaport places.

* The later form of this, le Roy se avisera, came in time to mean that the King
declined to assent to the petition.

VOL. III., N.S. S

258 APPENDIX.

Ancient Petition, N° 2,262.
*A nostre seignour le Roi et a son conseil moustre Labbe nostre
Dame Deverwyk qe come li et ses predecessours ont eu la disme de.
veneson de les forestes denz le Contee Deverwyk, qiqei veneson print
denz les dites forestes, du doun le Roi Henri le secunde, progenitour
nostre dit seignour le Roi, et nadgeirs Sire Johan de Crombwell
adonkes gardein de la foreste de la Trente par procurement des
ministres de la foreste de Galtres suist par peticion en parlement
tenu a Everwyk Ian du regne nostre dit seignour le Roi secunde qe
pur laf . . . . et descharge de la dite foreste de Galtres Labbe Aleyn,
predecessour le dit Abbe, eust la veneson de la foreste de Spa[unton en]
eschaunge pur la disme de veneson de la dite foreste de Galtres, sauve
a nostre seignour le Roi la venue des gardeins d[e la] foreste et la for-
faiture des trespassours de veneson, si le dit Abbe Alein se vousit
assenter. Par quoi une enqueste [fut] prise par bref ad quod damnum
etc et returne en la Chauncellerie, sur quele enqueste nostre dit
seignour le Roi enfourme [....] ment de son conseil au tretice tenue
a Everwyk Ian de son regne suisdit, graunta par sa chartre au dit Abbe
Aleyn la veneson de la dite foreste de Spaunton en la fourme susdite a
terme de v aunz, parmi quel eschaunge le dit Abbe pur la defaute de
sauvagine que rarement repairent en la dite foreste de Spaunton,
nadmy resceu profit de veneson a la mountaunce de la disme de la
dite foreste de Galtres par graund partie pur le temps avantdit.
Dount le dit Abbe prie a nostre seignour le Roi qil puisse reavoir la

A Petition to King and Council of the Abbot of St. Mary's, York.
By grant from Henry II. he and his predecessors have had the tithe of
venison of the forests within the County of York whoever took the
game ; but lately certain officers of the Forest of Galtres as attorneys
for John de Crombwell, then Keeper of the Forests north of the Trent,
petitioned the Parliament held at York in the year 1329 that the
Abbot Alan, a predecessor of the present Abbot, might have, if he
would agree to the arrangement, the game in Spaunton Forest in
exchange for the tithe of venison in Galtres Forest, saving to the King
the visits of his Keepers of the Forest and the fines from poachers.

An inquest was taken by writ of ad quod damnum and returned
into the Chancery, upon which the King at the Treaty of York
granted by deed to the Abbot the game in Spaunton Forest for five
years ; but the Abbot has not received as much profit from the game
which but rarely repair to Spaunton Forest as the tithe of the Forest of
Galtres would during that time have amounted to. Wherefore the

* Compare Vol. II., N.S., pp. 266, 268. + Sliphtlv torn in nkces.

ANCIENT PETITIONS. 259

disme de veneson de la dite foreste de Galtres, ou avoir la veneson de
la dite foreste de Spaunton perpetuelment a lui et a ses successours en
la fourme susdite e en recompensacion des damages queux le dit Abbe
ad eu, et il et ses successours purront avoir apres ces heures parmi eel
eschaunge sil se face, qil eit congee de nostre seignour le Roi de
purchacer* xx livres de terre hors de son fee.

[Endorsed] Eit la veneson de la dite foreste de Spaunton a terme
des autres cynic aunz.

Abbot prays the King that he may have again the tithe of the Forest
of Galtres, or else that he may have the game in the Forest of Spaun-
ton for ever, and that as a compensation for the damage which he has
suffered that he may be permitted to purchase land outside his fee to
the value of ^20.

[Endorsed] He may have the game in Spaunton Forest for a
further term of five years.

* A statute against Mortmain had been passed in the year 1344, and was being
vigorously enforced.

S i

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

Abbas, Jno. , son of, 45

Abbotsone, Jno., 69

Abernythy, Alex de, xxx

Acaster, Robt. de, 215

Acclam (de) Geoff., 44, 67, 68 ; Jno.

68 ; Marm., 44, 67 ; Peter, 68 ;

Robt., 44, 45, 68
Acredikes, 99, 112

Aislaby, 34, 81 ; (on Tees), Jno. de, 24
Alan the reeve, 49
Aldea, 126, 149
Aldgate, 126
Aldwlpotgate, 149
Alen, 45
Allantofts, xxi, 28, 33, 40, 50, 52-59,

246 ; (de) Jordan, 69
Allerston, xix, xx, xxviii, xxx, 1 12,

155, 194, 214-217 ; (de) Alan, 51 ;

Roger, 218 ; Wm., 219 ; — beck, 9,

162
Alruif, 126

Ampelforth, Wm. de, 64
Appleby, Wm. de, 60
Appletreekeld, xix, 98, 153
Archer (le) Wm., 46, 67, 179, 180
Arncliffe, 45
Arnoldstone, 112
Aschilesmares, 194
Ash (de) Jno., 65 ; Ralph, 64
Asheby, 68 ; Wm. de, 68
Askew, 32
Austin the reeve, 27
Aycliffe, 222; side, II, 153
Ayremynne, Wm. de, 250
Ayton, 11, 12, 21, 22, 42,46, 54, 150,

179; (de) Gilb., xviii. xix, xx, xxii,

11, 22, 46, 81, 98, 153, 201, 206;

Robt., 81 ; Sim., 20, 46 ; Wm., 197

B.

Backleys, 22, 178

Bagot, Alan, 61

Balde, Robt., 46, 66; Wm., 46

Banastre, Adam de, xii., 244.

Bankwell, Mr. Justice, xvi, 204

Barban, Wm., 44

Barber, Jno., 16

Barde, Wm., 221

Barker, (le) Hugh, 45, 67 ; Wm., 26

Barneby, Roger de, 68

Barry, Thos., 13

Barton, 193, 194

Barugh, 22, 46, 64

Bassett, Wm., 196, 216, 217

Bateman, Walt., 59

Bath and Wells, Bishop of, 43

Baynton, see Boynton

Beal, Jno., 16

Bealfrount, Alan, 35 ; Robt., 179

Beauchamp, Giles, 225

Beeston, (de) Ralph, 247 ; Wm., 247

Bek, Anthony, Bishop of Durham, 223

Belet, Reg., 100

Belle, Wm., 49

Belynause, 139

Bene, Thos., 45, 67

Bercarius, see Shepherd

Berenhow, 126

Bergh, (de) Alex., xxviii, 26, 35, 42, 46,

48, 52, 240; Bernard, 26, 35, 57, 253 ;

Wm., 48, 253
Beriere, Matilda la, 179
Berkeley Castle, xi
Berkhampstead, 170
Berlagh, 96

Berlay, 246 ; Rich, de, 246
Bernard, Juliana, 34
Berwick-on-Tweed, 165

262

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

Beverley, xxxii, 228 ; Robt. de, 59

Bewer, Adam de, 64, 65

Bigcapel, see Byng.

Bigod, (le) Hugh, 243 ; Roger, xii, 178,

222, 231, 242
Billaclif, Alan de, 58
Birk, (le), 98, 154
Birkschow, 68
Biston, Thos. de, 44
Binnham, Jno. de, 225
Blachose, Walt., 69
Bladale, Wm. de, 45
Blakhous, 98, 153, 180
Blakey Moor, xxxi, 224, 225, 227
Blank, see White.
Blansby Park, xxi, xxiii, 51-53, 82, 127,

193, 242
Blaver, Thos., 66
Bier, Jno., 45, 67
Blishton, Thos. de, 69
Blount, Thos., 66

Bolebeck, (de) Osbert, 243 ; Ralph, 242
Bolleby, Thos. de, 81
Bonestauris, 19
Bordesden, Jno. de, 44, 69
Boret Thorn, 149
Borrowby, Jno., lord of, 68 ; Rich, de,

46.
Bossall, (de) Robt., 67 ; Thos., 16, 45,

67
Bouelton, Thos. de, 46
Bougheland, Hy. de, 49
Boulot, Robt., 29
Boye, Thos., 180

Boynton, (de) Edmd., son of Robt., 45,
46} Ingram, 43 ; Jno., 67 ; Walt.,
48

Boythorp, Wm. de, 68

Boyvill, Wm. de, 180

Brabazon, Roger, 229

Braithwaite, 98, 153

Brauncroft, Jno. de, 81

Brett, Thos., 14, 16, 22, 46, 64-66, 80,
81, 185, 220

Bridge, Nicholas at the, 240

Bridgegate, Robt. de, 228

Bridlington, Prior of, xxii, xxix, 3, 6,
37, 48, 58, 81, 125

Brigham, (de) Jno., 45, 66, 68, 77, 78;
Wm., 19

Brockton, Wm. de, 46

Brompton, xix, xx, 13, 39, 42, 43 98,
153, 186-197, 221, 222

Broughton, Thos. de, 225

Brown, Jno., 45, 66 ; Peter, 64 ; Wm.,

65
Brown Hows, 99, 154
Browning, Steph., 61
Broxa, 29, 66 ; (de) Jno., 55 ; Rich., 44
Bruce, Archibald, 51 ; Matilda, 80, 124;

Robt., xxxi, 46, 48, 80, 85 ; Wm.,

46, 49, 66, 81
Brustwick, 227
Bruyndesdike, 149
Buchard, Roger, 178
Buckton, Wm. de, 45
Bulford, Jas. de, 68
Bullock, Wm., 65
Bulmer, (de) Gilb., 68; Jno., 87, 221 ;

Mich., 21 ; Ralph, 81, 130; Wm.,

219
Burgh, (de) Hugh, 254; Robt, 236
Burheved, Jno., 68 ; Reg., 68
Burneston, 56, 95, 117, 140 ; (de) Adam,

xxii, 140 ; Jno., 66
Burton, Walt, de, 50
By land, Abbot of, 81
Byng, Humphrey, xxviii, 118

C.

Calipan, Jno., 68

Calvehird, Jno. le, 65

Calveton, Jno. de, 44, 69, 77, 78

Cambridge, Jno. de, 188

Capel, Wm., 65, 66

Carieton, Jno. de, 68

Carpenter, Bart., 42 ; Geoff., 31, 43 ;

Wm., son of Roger, 184
Carter, Alan, 45, 66, 69; Jno., 44;

Rich., 45; Robt., 69; Roger, 45,

66, 69,. 257 ; Wm., 45, 66, 69, 77,

78, 184
Castle Ings, xxix
Cator, Roger, 226
Cave, Robt., 40
Caveheads, 36

Cawthorn, 55, 68 ; Rich, de, 62
Cayton, 17, 20; — Carr, 19
Chamberlain, Robt., 20
Chapel, Wm. de la, 45
Chaumbre, (de) Ambrose, 44, 250; Gilb.,

44
Chaumpard, Jno., 64
Cheseman, Thos., 30
Chiborn, Robt. de, 45, 67, 7°. 75"77

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

263

Chicksand, House of, 103

Chigogemers, 194

Chilvesmares, 194

Chimene, Jno. de la, 32, 221

Christchurch, Canterbury, xxiv

Chubbok, Hy., 44

Cissor, see Tailor

Clerk, Jno., son of Rich, le, 21

Cleufield, 252

Cleveland, 45

Cliff, (del) Jno., 44, 247 ; Robt., 26, 41,

57
Clifford, Robt. de, 234
Clifton, Robt. de, 190
Clitherhoe, Rich, de, 220
Clos, Robt. del, 45, 67
Cloughton, 6, 117; (de) Ralph, 57;

Thos., 46
Cockard, Rich., 15
Cockerell, Elias, 30 ; Helen, 66 ; Henry,

38 ; Robt., 48
Cole, Robin, 225
Collom, Thos., 52, 67
Collyer, Thos., 26
Colman, Rich., 16, 29
Colville, Robt., 45
Colwite, Wille, 45
Combur Hall, 69

Comergeshead, Roger de, 181, 182
Conishead, Ralph, son of Roger de, 44
Cook, Wm., 20 ; — atte Wose, 224, 226
Cookdike, 207

Cooper, Adam, 45 ; Wm., 60, 68, 81
Cornwall, Earl of, 243
Cort, Robt., 79

Costa, xxv, xxix, 2, 8, 126, 139, 149, 162
Cote, (del) Geoff., 205 ; Jno., 31 ; Nalle

atte, 56
Couperell, Robt, 13
Courcy, Nich., 64 ; Wm., 64-66, 217
Courtman, Wm., 15, 65
Coventry, Bishop of, xxiv
Cowhouse, Robt. of the, 225
Cowick, 225
Coxwold, Jno. de, 233
Crayke, Walt, de, 66
Crepping, (de) Rich, 178 ; Wm., 66
Crombwell, Jno. de, 258
Cropton, 16, 30, 32 ; — Castle, 28, 33,

43 ; Theobald de, 63
Cross, Jno., son of Roger atte, 45, 66,

69, 77, 78, 184
Crosscliff, 41, 42, 112
Crote, Austin, 27

Cruel, Edmund, 44, 69 ; Jno., 44, 61, 69
Cundy, Simon, 61 ; Wm., 61
Cut, Robt., 45, 69 ; Wm., 24
Cuthbertgate, 126

Dalby, xxi, xxiii, 38, 39, 47, 49, 53-58,

47, 171, 82, 252 ; Rich, de, 13
Dale, Hy., 66 ; John of the, 213
Dales, (de) Jno., 44; Margaret, 55;

Ralph, 64, 65 ; Robt., 44; Thos.,

44-46, 68 ; Wm., 44, 68
Dalton, 45, 69 ; John de, xii, xxx, 52, 63,

65, 94, 146, 159, 240, 243
Danby, 44, 69 ; John de, 44, 69
Dapifer, Eudo, xxviii, 118
Darell, Jno., 45, 66 ; Rich., 45, 66 ;

Wm., 45
Darling, Ralph, 38; Robt., 31, 39
Damcliff, xxii, 95
Dauncour, Thos., 68
Dawson, Alan, 65
Dayes, Rich., 16
Daysun, Walt., 46
Deepdale, 39 ; — Springs, 32
Dent, Jno. de, 45
Derwent, xxv, xxix, 8, 159, 161
Despenser, Hugh, 226, 248, 249 ; Lady,

225
Dicerton, Wm. de, 66
Dingleby, Jno., 46, 67; Walt., 46, 67
Dobe, Aldusa, 34 ; Wm., 34
Dorney, Edmd., 225
Douthwaite, 60; (de) Robt., Walt.,

Wm., 159
Drax, Prior of, 81
Drie, Julia, 45 ; Rich., 45 ; Roger, 44,

45
Driffield, 127, 156; (de) Hy.. 145;

Thos., 45
Drokerford, Jno. de, 43
Dryng, Steph., 60
Duffield, see Driffield
Duggleby, Wm. de, 26
Duk, Wm., 68
Dundale, Wm. de, 64
Dunfermlyne, Robt. de, 45, 68
Duntwath, 181
Durem, Geoff, de, 44
Durham, Ralph, 67
Dunstable, Wm. de, 225

264

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

Easingwold, 234, 235, 242, 249 ; Alan

de, 249
Easthorp, 193
East Shunner Hows, 126
Ebberston, xiv, xix, 32, 39, 47, 49, 66,

100, 103, 122, 155, 194, 199-212,

218, 219; Thos. de, xii, 122, 178,

202, 207
Edmund, John, 13
Edusmarsh, xxix, 162, 194
Edward I., 120

Edward II., xi, xxxi, 124, 144, 159, 173
Edward III., xxxi, 142
Edward Prince of Wales, 148, 170, 192,

193

Egginton, 224

Egton, 16, 34, 55, 63, 180; (de)Jno.,

44, 69 ; Wm., 45
Eland, see Yeland
Elhall, 183
Ellerburn, xvi, xxii, 27, 48, 53, 1 55, 194 ;

Elred de, 32
Ellerland, 149
Ellerton, Prior of, xiii, xix, xxix, 81, 107 ;

Jno. de, 13
Elredby, Adam de, 44
England, (de) Muriel, 249; Wm., 249
Ergom, Wm. de, 66, 69, 77, 78
Eskdale, 43, 45, 46
Eston, Wm. de, 46
Etton, 68 ; Wm. de, 67
Eure, (le) Jno., xiv, 221 ; Wm., 58
Everley, 31, 183 ; (de) Geoff., 68 ; Wm.,

53, 65, 66, 69

F,

Faber, see Smith

Falconer, Simon, 79, 147, 159

Falsgrave, xix, 172

Fanacourt, Bart, de, 16

Farman, Roger, 182

Farmandby, xix, xx, xxii, 41, 69, 81, 112,

155. 194
Farndale, 61, 67, 69 ; Jno. de, 161
Farwath, 126
Fauconberge, Jno. de, 249
Felton, Jno. de, 224
Fichet, Jno., 44, 69
Filey, Wm. de, 45, 69

Filing, Jno., 66

Fishborne, (de) Hy., 44, 67, 77 ; Roger,

16, 45 ; Wm., 16, 67, 68
Fisher, Wm., 64
Flatemaryng, 149
Fleetwood, Serjeant, i68«
Fletcher, (le) Thos., 13
Flixton, 19 ; Thos. de, 234
Folkton, 17, 20
Forrester, Godard, 53 ; Ingram, 52, 67 ;

Jno., 44, 61 ; Lawr., 53; Mich.,

16, 51 ; Phil., 59 ; Thos., 192 ;

Wm , 56
Fossard, Wm., 44, 69
Fotour, Jno. le, 24
Fotyng, Wm., 51

Foulbridge, xxv, xxx, 4,42, 55, 145, 158
Fouler, (le) Adam, 22, 46 ; Hy., 23, 46 ;

Wm., 44
Foulshaw, Hy., 13
Foune, Walter, 44, 68, 69
Fount, Thos., 66
Fowkebridge, see Foulbridge
Fox, Jno., 64 ; Jordan, 64 ; Wm., 22
Foxholes, Jno. de, 218
Freman, Wm., 45, 67
Frerdike, 126, 139
Frerebridge, xxv, 2
Frerestead, 10

Frirth, 149, 152; Robt. del, 178
Frost, Ralph, 56
Fulford, Wm. de, 50
Fullwood, xxii, 13, 15, 37, 40, 54. 9.

117, 140, 240 ;— Hepping, 181

G.

Galtres, xiv, xxvii, 234, 236, 258

Gant, Walter de, xxv

Garton, 227

Gascony, 257

Gaveston, Peter de, 243

Gegge, Amery, xv, 122, 202, 205, 207

Ralph, 49 ; Robt., 77
Gell, Sim., 182

Gentle, Jno., 28, 34; Margaret, 34
Gering, Hy., 49 ; Hugh, 13
Giles, Peter, 65
Gillingmoor, 61 ; Wm. de, 64
Glascowollehouse, 225, 227
Glaver, Thos., 66
Gnatel, Thos., 44, 65

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

265

Goathland, xxvii, 10, II, 20, 32, 33, 246

Goderickgill, 99, 154

Godyer, Wm., 29

Good world, Wm., 178

Goos, Robt., 66

Gosnargh, Jno. de, 45, 69

Gotson, Jno., 200, 205

Gower, Alice, 81 ; Jno., 81 ; Nich., 64-

66, 81 ; Wm., 15
Greathead, 40
Greendale, Walt, de, 180
Greenhow, xxxi, 225
Grimet, Roger, 45, 68
Grindstone Wath, 126
Gristhorpe, 20
Gundale, 27, 30, 34
Gunneys, Phil., 39

H.

Hackness, 10, 11, 14, 45, 65, 67, 68

Haggerston, Wm. de, 46

Haldane, 68 ; Nich., 39, 64-66, 191 ;

Rich., 178 ; Roger, 39, 68
Hall, (de) Geoff., 48 ; Hugh, 45
Hambury, Jno. de, 1, 67, 70-79, 82,

127-129, 147, 154, 158, 165
Hamilton, Jno. de, 68
Hampthwait, Thos. de, 65
Hampton, Robt. de, 28, 67
Hamund, Jno., 182, 183 ; Robt., 181
Hanworth, xxiv
Hany, Wm. de, 183
Hare, Jak, 44 ; Wm. , 22
Harel, Nich., 180
Harland, Nich. de, 62
Harlay, Jno. de, 15
Harpour, (le) Jno., 227 ; Thos., 69
Harsike, Jno., 224

Hart, Jno., 49 ; Nich., 58 ; Rich., 58
Hartoft, 15, 65 ; Robt. de, 67
Harwood, 68 ; (de) Robt., 178; Roger,

44, 45, 52, 68
Hasthorp, Robt. de, 180
Hastings, Beatrice, 41 ; Edmd., 32, 46,

65, 68, 80, 88, 198, 221, 241 ;

Hugh, 44; Nicholas, xix, 41, 44, 45 ;

Ralph, xvi, xix, xx, xxii, xxx, 41,

46, 64, 66, 76, 93, 112, 124, 198,

201,206, 214,215; Wm., 41, 46
Hauley, Geoff, de, 65
Haverbergh, 252

Haverdale, Wm. de, 44, 68

Hawsker, Adam de, 25

Hawthorn, Jno. de, 205

Hayburn, xxii, 95, 117, 140; Hugh de,

57
Haye, Wm., 45
Haylard, Jno., 56
Hazelslack, Sim. de, 179
Head, Ralph del, 69
Headgate brow, 99
Helme, Thos. de, 20
Helmeswell, Jno. de, 55
Helmsley, 15; (de) Jno. 64; Rich., 13,

64
Helperthorp, (de) Adam, 45, 69; Robt.,

45. 69
Henry I., xxvii, 118, 127, 162
Henry II., xxvii, xxviii, 8, 91, 99, 125,

134, 172
Henry III., 103, 125, 142, 144, 172,

231, 242
Herlaston, Wm. de, 254
Herle, Wm. de, 186, 188
Herre, Hy., 66, 69; Rich., 66, 69
Heslerton, West, 16
Hickling, Hy. de, 16
Hill, (del) Jno., son of Simon, 45; Nich.,

43 ; Steph., 60
Hinderwell, 45, 67
Hipperswell, Thos. de, 46, 66
Hirne, Wm. in le, 61
Hockerell, Hy., 34
Hogherd, Geoff., 57
Holla, 126

Holme, Alan de, 45, 65
Hoi thorp, Wm. de, 217
Holtwaitbank, xix, 149, 152
Hoodless, Matilda, 33
Horcum, 253
Hornby, Jno. de, 183
Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, see

Knights Hospitallers
Hovingham, xxi, 229 ; Wm. de, 64
Howe, xxv, 162 ; Wm. del, 13
Howedale, xvi
Huby, 234, 235, 242
Hull, (de) Geoff, 64 ; Roger, 46; Simon,

64
Humet, Jno. de, 44, 68
Hungerford, Robt. de, I, 7 1, 79, 82,

138
Hunt, Wm,, 224
Hunter, Matilda la, 62
Hunter, Walt., 68

266

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

Hunthouse, (del) Nicholas, 26, 37 ;
Thos. 26, 37, 69 ; Wm., 44, 69

Hutton, 30, 60, 65 ; (de) Jno. 45 ; Nich.,
45; Roger, 180; Thos., 68 • Wm.,
45 ; — Bushell, xix, 11, 12, 21, 22,
99 ; — Ker, 12; in the Hole, Jno.
de, 60

I.

Idle, Robt. del, 225

Inge, Jno. de, 188

Inglewood Forest, xiii

Ingram the forester, 52, 67

Ireland, Jno., 66

Irton, 21, 66 ; (de) Jno. 33, 53

Wm.,33, 53, 55
Itory, Robt., son of Robt., 65

Jack Hare, 69

Jarestap, 149

John, King, 118, 130

Joperell, Geoff., 58

Jurdan, James, 45

Jurour, Rich., 52 ; Wm., 52, 67

K.

KEKESGATE, 222

Kekkemarishes, 8, 90, 133, 136, 139,

162, 194
Kelk, Hy. de, 12, 14, 65, 66, 90
Kelstern, Agnes de, 189
Kemp, Jno., 45, 68
Kenilworth, xi
Kennington, 170, 192, 193
Kerdike, 159
Kesburgh, Rich, de, 200
Keshow, 126

Kettle well, Roger de, 183
Kildale, 69
Kilham, 127, 156
Killerby, 18

Killington, (de) Robt., 57 ; Wm., 57
Kilvington, Jno. de, 65, 94, 122, 254
Kilwardby, Jno. de, 221
KiDg, Jno., 43

Kingthorpe, xviii, xxii, 41, 44, 50, 65,

io3> I5S> 194; (de) Geoff., 13;

Parnell, xiv, xxii, 80, 82
Kirkby, 24, 62 ; Jno. de, 171, 215
Kirkby Misperton, 126
Kirkby Moorside, 61
Kirkham, Wm. de, 45, 69
Kirkton, Ralph de, 229
Knaresborougb, 71, 72
Knights Hospitallers, xix, xxv, xxix, xxx,

4, 42, 55, 58, 79, 141, 143. 158,

214-217
Knights Templars, xxx, 4, 143, 159, 214-

217, 251
Knott, Abraham, 65
Kutte, see Cut
Kypsyk, 162

Lacy, (de) Edmd., 17, 19; Rich., 17;

Wm., son of Jno., 20
Lagan, Jno. 25 ; Regd., 179 ; Roger, 24
Lambe, Wm., 65, 66
Lambson, Robt., xxii, 95 ; Steph., 56
Lancaster (Earls of), Edmd., xi, 17, 71,

125, 145, 210, 229, 231 ; Hy.,xi,xxi,

70, 146, 164, 187, 201, 206, 221;

Thos., xxx, xxxi, 61, 6^, 86, 94, 145,

159, 236-256 ; (Honor of), 231
Landemote, Jno. de, 46, 67
Lang, Hy., 61 ; Robt., son of, 45
Langatdale, xvi, 112, 126
Langbaurgh, Wm. de, 19
Langdale, xxi, 15, 29, 50-59, 239 ; Geoff.

de, 45, 65
Langton, Wm., 94
Langwath, Wm. de, 64
Langwathside, 41
Lastingham, 59
Latimer, Wm. le, 26, 35, 41, 42, 46, 49,

57, 180
Laverock, Hugh, 61
Laycet, Anselm de, 44
Leafehow, 60

Lealholm, (de) Jno. 46 ; Robt., 46, 65
Lebberston, 18, 20 ; — Carr, 20
Leek, Jno., 247
Leicestsr, 74 ; Anselm de, 69
Lepingdon, Geoff, de, 16, 68
Leure, see Eure
Levedy, Adam, 45

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

267

Levisham, 1, 64, 65, III, 158, 194 ; (de)

Jno., 65; Nich., 68, 178; Thos.,

245 : Walt., 65
Ley, Nich. de la, 68
Liddell, 16, 63, 81, 149, 152, 160
Lille, 55; Alan, 50; Nich., 55
Lindrick, Jno. de, 36
Lindsay, Phil, de, 45
Lionel, 199

Lister, Robert Ie, 28, 217, 219
Lith, (de) Geoff., 56; Joan, 56
Lithebeck, Walt, de, 178, 181
Lithegraines, Jno. de, 229
Littlebeck Cliff, 95
Lixi, Jno., 66
Lockton, xix,64, 103, 131, 226, 251, 253;

(de) Nich., 48 ; Robt., 65 ; Roger,

48, 68
Lofthous, 149

Loft Marishes, 8, 90, 133, 136, 140
London, (de) Adam, 68; Walt., 227
Long, Roger le, 63, 66, 81
Lounesdale, (de) Adam, 46 ; Jno., 68
Lowndikes, 139
Lunde, 8, 90, 133, 136
Lutton, Jno. de, 158
Lyard, Reg., 66 ; Wm., 69
Lycheryk, 45, 67
Lygard, Reg., 45, 69, 77, 78, 184 ; Wm.,

45, 69
Lymburgh, Jno. de, 182

M.

Mabbe, Adam, 57

Malcake, Alan, 39, 131, 250; Wm.,

250
Male, Jno., 68
Malleson, Rich., 13
Malton, xxv, 2 ; Prior of, xiii, xxix, xxx,

28, 40, 57, 81, 102, 161 ; Jno. de, 46,

52, 64, 68, 189 ; Jno., son of, 191
Man, Thos. le, 59 ; — of Men, Hy., 69
Mannesherne, Roger de, xviii, 50
Mar, Geoff, atte, 32 ; (de) Alice, 224 ;

Roger, 224
Marays, Wm. del, 65
Mardesdon, 57
Marrish, 136
Marston, Wm. de, 63
Martegale, Thos., 64
Marton, 61, 68 ; (de) Adam, 62 ; Ralph,

3, 14, 65, 90 ; Robt., 65 ; Thos., 81

Maucovenaunt, Geoff., 67

Mauley (de) Alice, 19 ; Edmd., 44 ;

Peter, 44, 45, 68 ; Thos., 46 ; Wm.,

19
Maxudesmares, 194
Maynhermer, (de) Jno., 67 ; Wm., 44,

67
Meaux (Melsa), (de) Godfrey, in, 245 ;

Jno., xvii, xix, 1, 59, 81, ill, 158,

245 ; Scolastica, in, 245
Meredike, 149
Metham, (de) Jno., 46, 66, 67, 77 ;

Thos., 46
Meynell, Nich., xxxi, 45
Middlehead, 126
Middleton, xx, xxiii, 28, 81, 161, 194 ;

barony of, 149, 152 ; Roger de, 81
Midsike, 126
Miller, 44, 45, 66, 69
Milne, Roger del, 69
Milner, Abraham le, 65
Mirk, Esk, 126
Mody, Laur., 67

Monmouth, 234; Jno. de, xii, 15, 16, 87
Montfort, Simon de, xi, xii, xxxi, 225, 242
Moor, (de) Jno., 44, 68, 77, 78 ; Walt.,

60; Wm., 45, 217
Morcar, 193
Morolf, Jno., 44, 69
Morpath, Roger de, 53
Morsum, (de) Jno., 46; Rich., 45
Mortimer, Jno. 180
Morton, see Marton

Ivloryn, Denise, 186-198; Jno., 46, 60,
186-198; Jno., son of, 189-198;

Rich., 69, 189-196 ; Robt., 65
Mot, Jno., 65, 66
Mountpelers, Jno. de, 66
Mowbray (de), Jno., 221 ; Roger, 229
Moye, Wm. , son of Wm. , son of, 45, 65
Mulgrave, 46
Munkesman, Jno., 45, 69
Mygnot, Jno., 180
Myton, Robt. de, 69

N.

Nafferton, 45 ; Wm. de, 69
Naulton, Rich, de, 2, 12, 65, 66, 154
Nebard, Jno., 53
Nether Blawath, 149
Neucomen, Rich., 35
Neuthird le, 69

2(58

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

Nevill, (de) Hugh, 38, 190, 217, 219 ;

Peter, 38, 42, 221 ; Ralph, 176;

Robt., 233 ; Wm„ 221
Newby, 36

Newcastle-on-Tyne, 226, 244
Newland, 3
Newmarket, 227
Newstead, 8,90, 133, 136, 139; Robt.

de, 13
Newton, 82, 103, 193 ; (de) Adam, 65 ;

Alan, 64, 65 ; David, 53, 65 ; Jno.,

183 j Lawrence, 53, 8o, 81, 233 ;

Thos., 50
Nooks, Robt, 32
Norfolk, Earl of, see Roger Bigod
Normanby, 69, 118
Normanville, Thos. de, 178
Northby, 60
North Cave heads, 96
Northumberland, 13
Nunde, Roger, 66

O.

Odulfesmares, 194

Ohwerdale, 38

Osgodby, 21 ; — Carr, 20; Wm. de, 21

Oskelunt, 32

Overton, Wm. de, 44

Overwater, Wm., 60

P.

Pa, Rick., 181, 182 ; Robt., 218

Page, Wm., 45, 67, 68

Falfreyman, Jno., 44; Martin, 44, 68

Pape, Alex., 68

Parker, (le) Nich., 61 ; Roger, 68 ; Wm.,

44, 45. 69
Patrick, Robt., 45
Paulyn, Jno., 68
Payn, Walt., 35
Pedes, Jno., 21
Pelliparius, Ralph, 45

Percehay, Wm. (de), xiv, xvii, xxii, 23,

25, 46, 66, 82
Perceval, Agnes, 25 ; Thos., 25; Wm.,

25
Percy, (de) Alex., 45 ; Hy., xix-xxi, 44,

45. 68, 77, 164, 232 j Jno., 45;
Robt., 44, 69 ; Wm., 46 ; fee of, 195

Pert, Jno., 66, 198 ; Roger, 66, 69, 77,

221 ; Wm., 66, 69, 77
Petch, Alan, 46 \ Robt., 32, 46
Pickering, (de) Jno., 46, 66, 215 ;

Margaret, 131, 133 ; Robt, 65, 66 ;

Thos., xix, 80, 131, 133 ; Wm., 49 ;

— Hay, 24
Picton, Thos. de, 16
Pinder, Thos. le, 13
Piper, Alex., 44, 69
Pippinhead, Reg., 45
Pittere, Guillot de la, 224
Playce, (de) Robt, 81 ; Wm., 22, 46,

53. 65, 66, 122, 198
Pocklington, 127, 156; Wm. de, 218
Pontefract, xi, 244, 247
Pole, Rich, de la, 70-74, 138
Pope, Wm., 227
Porcyun, Robt, 67
Poulterer, Jno., 227
Prat, Matilda, 54
Prest, John, 47 ; Ralph, 54
Preston, 100
Prestre, John, 45, 68
Prisoun, Roger, 67
Proud, Adam, 45, 66, 68, 77, 78
Prudhomme, Adam, 39, 67 ; Hugh, 44
Pul, xxv, 4

Pulford, Sir Peter, 227
Pycot, Ralph, 55
Pykstan, Nich., 44, 45, 69

Rabtjk, Roger, 68

Radmire, Hugh del, 62

Raincliff, 16

Rainton, Jno. de, 254

Rappat, Adam, 69; Hy., 69

Raskelf, 45, 69 ; Roger de, 236

Rawcliff, 126

Raygate, Robt. de, 247

Reading, 199

Redhead, Jno., 46

Redmire, 126

Reed, (le) Ad., 55, 65 ; Alice, 225

Jno., 66; Rich., 55
Reeve, Jno., son of, 179
Repilton, 68

Repynghale, Nich. de, 65, 81, 161
Reysemist, Wm., 13
Riccall, Wm. de, 68

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

269

Richmond, 226 ; Rich, del, 45, 49, 67 ;

Earl of, 224
Rideman, Rich., 21
RieTaulx,xxxi,i63, 224, 225, 227 ; Abbot

of, xiv, xxv, xxviii, 2, 8, 68, 90,

133. 136, 139. *54
Rintour, Jno., 21
Rippley, Hy. de, xii, 213, 220
Riseborough, 149 ; and see Thornton
Risedike, 149

Rither, (de) Peter, 46 ; Robt., 247
Rodbrayth, Robt., 60
Roi, Simon, 44
Roke, Ralph, 67
Rome, Wm., 44, 67
Rosedale, 45, 65, 69 ; Prioress of, 80
Rosekin, Andrew, 226
Rosels, (de) Mich., 44, 69; Wm., 44,

68 ; Wm., son of, 44
Rotherham, Robt. de, 66
Round, Adam, 191
Rountree, 149

Roxby (Rouceby), 194; Jno. de, 50, 51
Ruffait, Wm., 44, 68
Russell, Geoff., 81; Rich., 58, 69;

Thos., 36; Wm., 221
Ruston, xix, 14, 37, 65, 66, 68, 96, 178,

223 ; (de) Godard, 48 ; Hy. , 1 8 1 , 1 82 ;

Thos., 66, 220 ; Wm., 45, 65, 221
Ruswarp, 45, 67
Rye, xxix, 8, 161

S.

Sage, Simon, 24

St. Brevel, 234

St. Edmunds, 176, 177

St. Mary's, see York

St. Nicholas Hospital, 126, 149^

St. Quinton, Wm. de, 46

Saintoft croft, 149

Salford, Wm. de, 17

Salman, Roger, 48

Salter, (le) Jno., 44, 69, 182 ; Thos., 44,

45, 182, 183; Wm., 182
Saltmarsh, Robt. de, 46, 67, 77
Samford, Robert de, xxx
Sandale, 43
Sandesby, Hy. de, 43
Sarterye, Peter de, 54
Sateman, Jno., 221
Savage, Hugh, 44, 69 ; Rich., 44

Sawdon, 55, 64, 68, 186-197, 221

Scalby, xii, 6, 15, 31, 69, 125, 178, 234,
239; (de) Reg., 37; Roger, 33;
— Hay, xxi, xxii, 13, 14, 31, 33, 35,
38, 40, 49-59, 125, 178-185, 242,
245

Scarborough, xix, xxxi, 28, 35, 44-46,
66, 68, 69, 81, 122, 172, 226, 229,
231, 243, 257; Robt.de, xiii, xiv,
199-213, 218-220

Schargille, Wm. de, 247

Scot, Adam, 68 ; Jno., 15, 64; Robt.,
64 ; Wm., 186, 196

Seamer, xix, xx, 45, 49, 164 ; Walter de,
224

Sedman, Alice, 37

Sempringham, xxix, 103

Seton, (de) Jno., 44, 67 ; Robt., 45

Settrington, (de) Robt., 178 ; Wm., 68

Seven, 149

Shafaldon, Jno. de, 32

Shaketree, Wm., 34

Shardeloe, Jno. de, 70-73, 133, 165, 188

Shareshull, Wm. de, 188

Sharp, Jno., 64; Wm., 33

Sheffield, Ralph de, 69

Shepherd, Jno., 62, 65 ; Ralph, 51 ;
Robt., 53 ; Wm., 64

Sherburn, 14 ; Jno. de, 14-16, 81, 164,
198

Shiphill, Rich., 13

Shipley, Wm. de, 16

Shipton, (de) Rich., 45, 69 ; Wm., 68

Shoner hous, 149

Shortred, Robt. le, 20

Silpho, 54, 66, 68

Sinnington, Rich, de, 51

Sit well, Thos., 62

Skelton, Rich, de, 36, 40, 43, 51-58,
222, 239

Skinner, Ralph, 45, 68

Skipton, 227

Skipwith, xvi, 204

Sleveles, Peter, 68

Smith, Bart., 68; Geoff., 50; Robt.,
61 ; Walter, 45 ; Wm., 65

Snainton, 25, 38, 43, 122, 186-198; (de)
Alan, 25 ; Jno., 186-192 ; Mar-
garet, 25 ; Thos., 21 ; Walt., 67

Snaith, 127

Sons, of — Abbas, Jno., 45, 69 ; of Adam,
Jno., 13, 25, 32, 33, 48, Nich., 62,
Wm., 61 ; of Agnes, Wm., 45 ; of
Alan, Alan, xxii, 47, 117, Jno., 81,

270

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

241, Robt, 13, Simon, 46, 68, 77, 78,
Steph.,27; ofAlberd, Thos., 69; of
Alexander, Alan, 36, Robt., 35 ;
of Almote, Adam, 34 ; of Andrew,
Rich., 178; of Austin, Jno. son of
Jno., 69 ; of Bartholomew, Geoff.,
57, 178, 183 ; of Beatrice, Robt.,
54, Wm., 27 ; of Benet, Jno., 183,
Robt., 60, Wm., 60; of Cecilia,
Thos., 60; of Cib, Roger, 68 ; of
Constance, Thos., 61 ; of Emma,
Jno., 65, Roger, 65, Wm., 65 ; of
Geoffrey, Bart., 40, 57, Hugh, 24,

59, Jno., 32, 200 ; of Gervais, Peter,
161 ; of Gilbert, Jno., 49 ; of
Hacket, Wm., 28 ; of Helewis,
Jno., 62; of Henry, Peter, 46, Wm.
69, 77, 78; of Hugh, Geoff., 59;
Henry, 62, Jno., 249, Wm., 25 ; of
Ibote, Jno., 224; of Ivetta, Wm.
son of Wm., 54; ofjocelyn, Jno.,
66 ; of John, Alan, 68, 233, Emma,
25, Eustace, xxix, 8, 162, Geoff., 25,
32,33, Jno., 45, 65, Rich., 30, Robt.,
69, Roger, 54, Thos., 64, Wm., 60,
183; of Julia, Geoff., 24 ; of Lam-
bert, Robt., xxii, 47 ; of Lawrence,
Julia, 33, Thos. , 61 ; of Lucy, Walter ,

62 ; of Lyolf, Robt., 63 ; of Malkin,
Jno., 68 ; of Marjorie, Wm., 37 ; of
Matilda, Ralph, 64, Rich., 13 ; of
Nicholas, Jno., 51, Roger, 30 ; of
Parnel, Ivo, 40 ; of Patrick, Jno.,
68; of Peter, Jno., 65, Ralph, 68,
Robt., 69; of Ralph, Adam, 183,
Alan, 65, 178, Wm., 44,66, 67, 68,
77, 78; of Richard, Alan, 58, Nich.,
51, 52, 62, Steph., 45, 46, Thos.,
45; of Robert, Jno., 31, Robt., 45 ;
of Roger, Alice, 62, Rich., 65, Robt.,
68 ; of Rose, Steph., 60 ; of Simon,
Jno., 61, Robt., 46, 67 ; of Stephen,
Alice, 61, Wm. son of Thos., 46, 68,
Thos., 68 ; of Thos., Adam, 44, 67,
Jno., 66, Robt., 68, Wm, 16, 45,

60, 69, 130, 225 ; of Walt., Jno.,
56, 62, Thos., 223; of Wm.,
Agnes 62, Jno., 65, Peter, 65,
Rich., 68, Robt., 53, Roger, 45,
Steph., 62, Walt, 59, Wm., 56

Spain, Geoff., 25 ; Robt., 68 ; Wm., 68
Spaunton, xxvii, xxxi, 69, 258 ; (de)

Agnes, 59 ; Jno., 60
Spicer, Adam, 44, 69

Spink, Robt., 45, 68

Spital Myre, 149

Spofford, (de) Jno., 45, Rich., 69

Stafton, Walt, de, 45

Staindale, 14, 112

Staingate, 67

Stainton, xxv, 67 ; Robt. de, 46 ; Master

of, xix, xxx, 48, 58
Stalker, Jno. le, 44, 69
Stamford, 167
Standingstone, 149
Stapleton, (de) Jno., 48 ; Julia, 48 ;

Nich., 248
Staumpes, Adam, Jno., Robt., 57
Stephen, King, 6
Sterre, Wm., 66

Stibbing, Jno., 67 ; Robt., 65 ; Wm., 61
Stirkhird, Adam, 52 ; Jno., 46, 65
Stirling, 166

Stokesley, Jno. de, 46, 67
Stonor, Jno. de, 188
Storour, Alan, 32
Stratford at Bow, xxiv
Stroyer, Thos. del, 13
Sturdy, Roger, 46
Sturmy, Matt, 68; Nich., 68; Thos.,

i6,39
Stut, 27

Stuteville, Eustace de, 151
Suardeby, Walt, de, 45
Suffield, 35, 54, 56 ; Greg, de, 179
Sulby, Rich, de, 44, 69
Sutherland, 126
Sutor, Thos., 44
Sutton, Jno. de, 46, 67
Swan, Rich., 178, 181

T.

Taili.our (le), Hugh, 64 ; Rich., 20,
46 ; Walt, 45

Tan, Robt., 27 ; Roger, 61

Tendant, Thos., 62

Tendbarn, Jno., 45

Thame, Philip de, 79*

Thaurus, 178

Themelyne, Robt. de, 17, 20

Thormotby, Adam de, 61

Thornton, xix, 13, 48, 68, 126, 194, 241,
252 ; Alan, son of Jno. de, 68 ;
Thomas, vicar of, 26 ; — Rise-
borough, xix, 130, 149

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

271

Thcrnyngthwaite, Wm. de, 44, 69

Thorpe, Wm. de, 198

Thumb, Wm., 180

Thurnef, Thos., xiv, xix, 65, 66, 122,198-

213, 220; Wm., 122, 202, 220, 221
Tickhill, 244
Tiverton, Conrad de, 66
Tober, Humphrey, 37
Todde, Wm. son of Robt, 68
Toftes, Roger de, 178
Tomlinson, Jno., 21
Tonel, Wm., 225
Topcliffe, Nich. de, 46, 66
Touchepryk, Wm., 46, 64 ; Robt., son

of, 68
Toucotes, Jno. de, 241
Tournour, Walt, le, 44, 69
Touthorp, (de) Agnes, 19 ; Wm., 19
Touton, Wm. de, 46, 67
Tower of London, 186
Trenchemere, Steph., 183
Trollesdale, 180
Trotan, Wm., 69
Troutsdale, xviii, II, 22, 39, 43, 98, 153,

222, 223
Trusseby, Walt, de, 4, 64-66, 80, 81
Trutcok, Roger de, 64-66
Tunge (del), John, son of Hy., 45, 67 ;

Peter, son of Hy., 67 ; Wm., 65
Tuphirst, Robt., 16
Tweng (de) Rich., 181 ; Robt., Marm.,

65, 250
Twici, Wm., 226«
Tybertis, Leon, de, 79

U.

Ughtred, Adam, 183 ; Thos., 81, 124
Ulf, Peter, 49; Thos., 29
Uphall, Rich, atte, 26
Upleatham, Adam de, 179, 180
Upsall, Jno. de, 217
Upset, Jno., 182
Usher, Wm., 46
Uskelf, 179

Valiaunt, Jno., 46

Veutrer, Robt. le, 68

Vescy,(de), Isabella de Welle, 222 ; Jno.,
68, 232 ; Wm., 169, 171, 173-178,
208, 221 ; de Kildare, 223

W.

Wagher, Edmd. de, 69

Wake, Thos., xix, xxiii, 16, 63, 81, 149,

152, 160
Wakelyn, Ralph, 44, 67
Walnut, Peter, 26

Wandesdale, (de) Alex., 41 ; Alice, 41
Wandesford, Thos. de, 179
Ward, Wm., 66, 185
Waternes, Thos., 31
Waver, Edmd. de, 44
Wawayn, Dighton, 224; Robt., 224
Werdale, (de) Alan, 61 ; Thos., 37
West Blawath, 126
Westby, Wm., 60
Westcroft, II
Westerdale, xiv, 68 ; (de) Pat., 181 ;

Robt., 68
Westgill, (de) Robt, son of Rich., 45;

Jno., 45
Westgonildburwes, 126
West Lidyatts, 126
Westhorp, 222 ; Thos. de, 213
Westminster, 165, 166, 177
West Shoner hill, 149
West Wales, 231

Wheeldale, 34, 36, 37. 82, 126, 149
Whissendine, Wm. de, 212
Whitby, 45, 46, 52, 67 ; Abbot of, xxvii,

10, 11, 30, 68, 81
White, Jno., 38, 232; Thos., xiv, 61,

199-212, 218
Whorlton, xxxi, 225 ; Alice de, 225
Wigan, Robt. de, xvii, 14, 24, 213
William Hill, 149
Willoughby, Rich, de, I, 67, 7o~79» 82,

137-139, H7. 154. 158, 165, 198,

199
Wilton, 155, 194 ; Alan de, 130
Winburn, Jno. de, 40
Windsor, 80
Wirksworth, 231, 232
Wisk, Roger, 49
Wither, Wm., 229
Wodecok, Jno., 45, 65
Wodeman, Wm., 45, 65
Wodeward, Hy. le, 59
Woldhouse, Wm. de, 62
Wood, (del), Jno., 45 ; Jno., son of, 45,

66; Simon, son of Rich, 45;

Hugh, son of Robt., 45; Walt.,

62 ; Wm., 66
Woodhouse, Robt. de, 255

272

INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES.

Woodstock, 227

Wray, Robt., 220

Wrelton, 58 ; (de) Alan, 62, 66, 82,

253 ; Roger, 25, 86, 253
Wrightlington, Geoff, de, 220
Wrote, Rich., 67
Wryel, Thos. , 45
Wydale Head, 19
Wyern, (de) Robt., xiv, xix, 33, 53, 55,

122, 198-212, 220; Win., 122,

198-212, 220; Wm., 122, 198-212
Wykeham, xix, 14, 37, 49, 50, 96 ; Jno.

de, 186-197 ; Prioress of, xix, xxii,

80, 96
Wylardby, Wm. de, 46
Wylen, Geoff, de, 65
Wyles, Jno., 44, 69 ; Peter, 63 ; Rich.,

44 ; Wm. , 44, 46
Wymark, Robt., 46
Wyrksale, Walt, de, 45

Wyresdale, (de) Jno., 236 ; Wm., 65

Wyther, Rich., 67

Wyvill, (de) Thos., 44 ; Wm., 45

Yarlesike, 96

Yedingham, 4, 213 ; Prioress of, xxv,
4, 80, 201, 206

Yeland, (de) Herb., 68, 77, 78; Hugh,
13, 14, 65, 66, 69, 77, 78 ; Jno.,
46, 65 ; Katherine, 41 ; Ralph, 68,
77, 78; Wm., 4), 44, 45, 65

Yong, Peter, son of Hy., 65

York, 219 ; Abbey of St, Mary's, 61, 68 ;
Abbot of, xiii, xx, xxvii, 81, 118,
258; Archbishop of, 1 27, 156; Dean
of, xiii, xvii, xxii, xxix, 81, 126, 154;
Parliament at, 244

GENERAL INDEX.

Accounts, 224-228

Aeries of hawks, ill, 150

Afterpannage, 82

Agistment, 12, 92, 99, 134, 159, 164,

242
Almoner of King, xxviii, 227
Amercements of forest, 104, 108 ; claim

to have, 141, 144
Ancient demesne, 128, 187, 193, 239
Arrest, illegal, 217, 240
Assart, II ; claim to, xxix, 90, 133, 141,

144
Assize of ale, 237
Attachment courts, xx, xxi, 137, 143,

149, 192, 201, 206, 242
Attorneys, list of, 79 ; right to make, 238

Badger, xx, 99, 149, 164

Bailiffs of St. Mary's, 61 ; of Pickering,

xii, 190, 207, 213, 217, 219, 220, 240
Bark, claim to have, xiv, 85, 122, 203,

207
Birdcatching, 22, 46
Bridges, repair of, xxiii, 2, 4
Brousewood, cutting of, xvii, 129, 132
Buckstalls explained, xxix, 105, 109

Cablicia, xvii, 1, 23, 82, in, 127, 158

Capriolos, 171

Carreium explained, 105, 109

Cat, wild, xx, 99, 149, 164

Chamber, groom of, 224 ; Knight of,

225 ; porters of, 224
Charcoal, burning of, 1, 158
Cheminage, 109, 172, 235, 236
Church, grant of, 6
Cirpi, 20

Claims, 82-185 ; reversal of, 199-212
Commission to Scotland, 254
Common, xxi, 96, 155, 162, 252
VOL. III., N.S.

Constable of Scarborough, 180

Contribution to ship directed, 257

Cooperones, 82

Courtepy, 243

Courts of manor, 22, 115 ; right to hold,

239
Coverturas, 162
Cowhouse in forest, 1 1
Crown lands, alienation of, xi, 242
Curtilages, inclosure of, 127, 155

Danegeld, 137
Distress, unlawful, 213
Domesday Book, 193

Escapes, 82 ; explained, 104 ; custom
as to, xxii, xxiii, 85, 90, 151, 152, 160

Estrays, 47

Extortion by officers, xvi, 14, 15, 217, 219

Eyre, abatement of, 73 ; grant of fines
in, 231 ; rolls of, exemplified, 176

Falcons, hi

Fifteenth, tax of, 219

Fine in Common Bench, 186-197

Fishery, claim of, 8, 139, 161

Flaggi, 20

Footgeld explained, 104, 109

Foresters, xx, 13-15, 23, 45, 68, 178,233;
grievances against, xii, 244, 256 ; for-
feiture of, 232 ; not to enter lands,
90, 1 34, 1 72 ; wages of, 229 ; in
fee, 82, 129, 242, 253 ; of Allan-
tofts, 33 ; of Brompton, 93 ; of
Galtres, 236 ; of Hovingham, xxi,
229; of Middleton, 150; of Rie-
vaulx, 68 ; ot St. Mary's, York, 68

Foxhunting, xx, 99, 112, 118, 149, 164

Frank fee tenure, xxii, 95, 117, 128, 140

Fresh force, Assize of, xiv, 221
T

274

GENERAL INDEX.

Gelds enumerated, 104, 109
Goats, common for, xxii, 96, 99, 112
Greyhound, present of, 225

Harehunting, xx, 44, 99, 112, 118,
136, 149, 164

Henners, 255

Herbage, quittance of, 126

Herrings, kippering, 28

Hidata terra, 8

Hobbies, 228

Homage, 232

Honey, III, 150

Horngeld, 108

Horses lost on journey, 255

Hounds, keeping of, 130; lost, xxxii, 228

Housebote, etc., xviii, II, 96, 103, ill,

112, 127, 131, 155,234
Huntsmen, 44, 45, 46, 68, 224

Inclosure, 10, 119, 121

Justice, appointment of, 71, 229; of
Common Bench, 188 ; of forest, 229,
233, 234 ; to come to Scarborough,
172, 230, 231

Lawing of dogs, exemption from, 6,
93, 104, 109, 127, 136, 141, 144,

155
Liberties entered by bailiffs, 234
Livery wood, xxi, 150 ; sale of, 12

Magna carta quoted, 7
Manslaughter of offender, 233
Mast season, xxii, 95, 117, 140
Merger, 146^
Merlins, III, 150
Mesne, writ of, 241
Millstones, 150
Mortmain, xxx, 215

Nets, cord for, xxxi, 226
Nolle prosequi, 203
Nutgeld, 82
Nuts, collection of, 127, 155

Oath of thirty-six, 172-185

Oath, how freeman compelled to make,

237
Outlawry, process of, 67-78
Outlaws, claim to have goods of, 1 10

Palfreyman, 225

Pannage, xxii, 242 ; quittance of, 95, 1 17,

125, 126, 140, 156
Pannell not returned, 217
Park, claim of, 130
Pasture, surcharging, 20, 21
Perambulation of forest, 256
Pledges taken by unsworn men, 13
Ploughbote, 201, 206
Ploughs, rods for, 127
Poor, gift to, 227
Pound, claim to be quit of, 1 10
Protection, writ of, 165
Psallerint, xix, 154
Puralee, 255
Purpresture, 17, 243
Puture, xiii, 15, 104, 108, 126, 155, 225,

227, 236

Ransom, 224

Rebellion of Earl Thomas, 244, 248

Rectors of Brompton, 42 ; of Folkton,
17, 20 ; of Kirkby Misperton, 46 ;
of Lastingham, 59 ; of Levisham,
65 ; of Middleton, 28, 67, 81 ; of
Normanby, 46, 62 ; of Thornton, 48

Reeve, of John de Drokenford, 43 ; of
Pickering, 25, 32 ; of Seamer, 180

Regard, holding of, 136 ; impeding, 1 6,
19; claim to be outside, xviii, II,
22, 98, 108, 142, 144, 149, 154, 172

Release, 197

Retallium, 82

Riding forester, 14

Roe, xx, 171, 178, 225

Running footman, 225

Scire facias, writ of, 198-212

Scot explained, no

Scotch invasion, 224

Sell, right to, 237

Serjeant of Normanby, 69 ; of the King,

226
Sheaf, tax of ninth, 218
Sheaves, collection of, xiv, 15, 104, 108
Sheepfold, near forest, 3, 90, 115, 133,

164
Ship provided, 257
Shoemaker, 45, 67, 69
Smelting places for iron, in, 164
Sparrow-hawks, III, 150
Surcharging pasture, 13
Sureties, list of, 64-66
Swainmote Court, xx, xxi

GENERAL INDEX.

275

Tallage, iio

Taverned, xi

Tementale, 137

Tenants to attend Court, 238

Tingnos, 40

Tithe of venison, xxvii, 120, 258 ; of

water-fowl, 227
Treasure trove, 19
Trists explained, xxix, 104, 109
Turves, cutting of, 21, 99, III, 1 12, 131,

150, 162

Verderers, 26, 33-40, 42, 183
Vert, offences of, 24-43
Vicars, of Ebberston, 32 ; of Ellerburn,
48, 67 ; of Thornton, 25

Wapentake Court, 238, 241, 254

Ward, East, 14; West, 15

Ward, making, xxiii, 47, 83

Wardrobe, keeper of, 255

Waste, exemption from, 108

Woodgathers, payment by, 115

Woodgeld, 108

Woods, sale of, 98, 153 ; not to be
taken for royal works, 140 ; carried
outside forest, xviii, 14, 16

Woodwards, claim to have, xix, 96, 99,
in, 113, 122, 131, 164, 201 ; elec-
tion of, xix, 201, 206 ; of Ayton, 45,
67 ; of Brompton, 13 ; of Ebberston,
32 ; of Nich. de Hastings, 45 ; of
Knights Hospitallers, 143 ; of Levis-
ham, 68; of Risborough, 150; of
Seamer, 164 ; of Staynton, 45,
67 ; of Thornton, 13

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